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...doesn’t seem like the honeymoon has ended just yet. WHRB continues to fill a unique niche in the Boston-area music scene: although classical music and opera claim the most airtime, the station also plays an eclectic mix that includes jazz, underground rock, and hip hop. WHRB even has a “Hillbilly Music” program that has been a fixture on Saturday mornings for nearly five decades...
...first long summer evenings are bringing residents out into the cobblestone streets. Many gather near the iconic Freedom Monument, erected in 1935 in honor of the young nation's earlier experience of independence, which lasted only from 1921 to 1940. Today, the locals flock here to listen to jazz, snack on sushi and parade around in the latest Zara jeans. Down the street, billboards advertising Swedish banks (and McDonald's) mingle with a backdrop of copper-green medieval spires. Visitors wanting to understand the city's deep commitment to free trade could explore its many history museums. Or they could...
Until Jesse joined the military, jazz had been one of his main passions. "He was great at improvisation," says Steve Ode, who played trombone alongside Jesse in jazz band through middle school and high school. "When it came to playing anything solo, the band directors turned to Jesse." But Jesse always seemed in search of a larger purpose. When he was about 12, he asked his father to take him to a nondenominational Bible-study group. Jesse had found it on his own and wanted to go because he was curious about religion. For two years father and son went...
After graduating from high school in 1998, Jesse put jazz aside and pursued computer engineering in community-college classes in Aurora, where he also worked at an insurance company. But he abandoned the college path in 2005 to enlist in the Marines. The decision took his family by surprise. Jesse told his father only after he had arrived in California for training. Soon after, Jesse left for Iraq, where word from him came rarely...
...support his new family in California. Aaron Genevie, from southwest Pennsylvania, said his mom was his greatest inspiration. Daniel Scherry of Rocky River, Ohio, always wanted to be a Marine. Illinois native Lucas Starcevich helped outfit his platoon when equipment ran short. Jesse De La Torre was a jazz-playing Bible student from Illinois. They had some things in common: several were in Iraq for their second tour of duty. One begged Army doctors just to let him in the first time...