Music During Wartime

September 7, 2010 by Molly Sheridan

I’m not usually a sentimentalist, but after slogging through recent weeks of news rich with intolerance and violence (I’ll spare you the litany of links), this vet’s story of music and humanity sneaked into my Google reader thanks to a friend and provided a glimmer of, well, hope in the midst of what all too often feels like an endlessly horrific news cycle.

Towards the end of the clip, he states his name as Jack LeRoy Tueller, and a little searching turns up this CNN news item which offers a more detailed account of Jack’s narrative than the video provides. A newspaper account seems to indicate that the clip is part of a larger “Utah World War II Stories” series filmed by local PBS affiliate KUED. Search results also turn up a 33-page interview conducted by KUED, if you really find yourself engaged by Jack and his stories. My own Papa having passed on, I admit I’m working my way through the transcript.

Thanks for sharing, Col. Jack.

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Stefanie says

September 9, 2010 at 2:22 pm

Thank you so much for sharing this. This is a tremendous story by a truly great man. Blessing on him.

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Molly Sheridan

Molly Sheridan is a writer, editor, and producer specializing in classical and experimental music, with a focus on multimedia content designed for the web. A winner of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for music journalism, she’s executive editor of NewMusicBox and CounterstreamRadio, both programs of New Music USA.

She hosted Carnegie Hall’s Sound Insights podcasts and online artist interviews and her writing has appeared in publications such as TimeOut, The Washington Post, and theÂ occasionalÂ concert program.Â She attended the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, earning a bachelor’s in journalism with a specialization in violin performance and French in 1999.

She currently divides her time between New York City and Baltimore, where she lives with her husband, the saxophonist Brian Sacawa, and cooks for Wonderland Kitchen.

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