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Music Appreciation

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(14,486 posts) Mon May 25, 2026, 11:41 AM Monday

My father, US Army in the Pacific, loved the music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller. [View all]

On this Memorial Day, I offer the music of Major Glenn Miller, Army Air Force, who went missing in action (MIA) on December 15, 1944, on a flight over the English Channel from England to France.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ecf6Y4_jDXM

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My father, US Army in the Pacific, loved the music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller. [View all] surfered Monday OP

Thank you. CBHagman Monday #1

It was the music of their time. Still good surfered Monday #2

I had occasion to visit the IA/MO border in 2004 nitpicked Monday #3

Did not know that. surfered Monday #4