OT: Memorial Day Music Thread

[Jackcatscal]

That great son of Danbury, CN.

 

[Jackcatscal]

One more from Charles Ives. The piece is named "Decoration Day," the old name for Memorial Day.

 

[Jackcatscal]

This one strikes home. It's a song of Irish Famine immigrants coming to America and being thrust into fighting for the Union's Irish Brigade and similar units upon arriving. That was my father's grandfather's story.

 

[Bigboote]

This is a song about WWII bombers.

 

[FairView]

 

[FairView]

 

[Shenandoah]

I Was Only Nineteen: John Schumann