It was in the hot summer of 1974 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma when our story begins. For the first time since graduation five years earlier from the United States Military Academy (USMA), my family and I were all together in the United States. We lived on the installation in a very small but adequate set …
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Brass in the Tower 1987-94
One of the things I turned out to be pretty good at during high school was music. I could always find the right pitches in church songs, and jazz and orchestral music really spoke to me. As a small child I had wanted to learn piano, but we couldn’t afford the piano or the lessons. In high school, …