Word: hymned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the singing of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, the voice of a small boy I could be heard among the I rows of mourners. "Where's my daddy?" he asked. His mother hugged him and cried. President Ronald Reagan, who later told aides "this is not the happiest of my days as President, but it's one of my proudest," had come to Camp Lejeune, N.C., home base of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, for a memorial service honoring the 230 U.S. servicemen killed in Beirut and the 18 killed in Grenada. There he was given...
...coffins, each draped with the French Tricolor, were lined up in the courtyard. Under a glow cast by Jeep headlights, the military trumpets sounded as the French chaplain sprinkled each coffin with holy water. At the end, the remaining soldiers sang La Chanson du Para, a favorite paratrooper hymn, whose melancholy lines floated slowly into the evening...
...forlorn return of the unchosen began last Saturday, when the first 15 bodies arrived at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware. As weeping family members stood by the coffins in a cavernous aircraft hangar, General Kelley spoke a few words of praise. Then the familiar strain of the Marine hymn filled the makeshift chapel...
Advice heard, advice unheeded. No advance was forthcoming, but Hirt passed along a horn to Wynton, who made his first public appearance the following year, blowing the Marine Hymn during a recital at the Xavier Junior School of Music. Over the next decade, following a few years of preadolescent musical indifference, teen-age funkifying, intense jazz practitioning and a little professional seasoning with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Wynton Marsalis found himself with a major-label record contract. His debut album has sold about 125,000 copies-a surprisingly strong showing for a jazz record-and pulled down...
Almost as interesting as the story told on the screen is the one revealed by the audience's reactions. "Star City, Russia" is superimposed on the screen and the audience hisses: Glenn successfully reenters the earth's atmosphere--humming. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." no less-and the audience cheers. Other movies certainly involve a viewer and invite similar responses, but few films seem as realistic or deal with such recent events as does The Right Stuff. Watching this movie is to be reminded, how American heroes are formed, and how quickly men transcend their ordinary qualities and become...