My new eBook on Amazon's Kindle is now available. The book will be in three, perhaps four, different books or volumes. Book one is about my years in the USMC between June, 1962 and December, 1963.
I served in three different USMC Bands in my four-plus years in the military: 2nd MAW Band at Cherry Point, North Carolina; 3rd Marine Division Band on Okinawa; and MCS Band at Quantico, Virginia. The term SIX BITS was the Marine musician's nickname for the march SEMPER FIDELIS.
In my tenure as a military musician I happened to witness several significant international events - military and political - and I have recorded many of them in this book. I served during the early part of the Vietnam Era. The book is primarily a memoir.
Three days after graduating from high school (mid-June, 1962) I found myself being yelled at (and physically buffeted) in the mosquito-infested swamp known as Parris Island, South Carolina where "every day is a holiday and every meal a banquet."
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