This year, 2019, we celebrate 74 years since World War Two ended, its veteran survivors being in their 80s and 90s, so some wartime music and a sentimental journey is a must. Some of them were dog handlers, such as Marine Corps war dog handler Pvt. Homer J. Finley, Jr. who still remembers his dogs, one of them being Pvt. ‘Jan’, a Doberman Pinscher, a silent hero of war.
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Welcome to 11th Day of Christmas Haiku, Eleven Pipers Piping.
Continue reading “11th Day of Christmas Haiku, Pipers Piping”Happy New Year 2019, New Year’s Day, Happy New Year, Pentatonix
Happy New Year with Pentatonix! I hope you will choose to focus on the future and its endless possibilities! You can “ kiss the past away ” and be the Kind or Queen of your own world!
Continue reading “Happy New Year 2019, New Year’s Day, Happy New Year, Pentatonix”Movie Music Monday, Wartime Classic, WW2, Begin the Beguine
A most beloved wartime classic song, Begin the Beguine was composed by Cole Porter in 1935, turned into a swing by Artie Shaw and band and made famous by Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. Their legendary tap dance in the movie Broadway Melody surely caught on.
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Movie Music Monday, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Meet Me in St. Louis , 1944, Judy Garland.
One of my old times favorite Christmas movies – ever since I can remember – is Meet Me in St. Louis and I am thrilled that it remained a Christmas favorite in our family!
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