On Sunday, my brass quintet with the 101st Band here at Fort Campbell played a few "Welcome Home" ceremonies for 100s of Vietnam Veterans who never got their "proper" due when they returned home many years ago, which was a really cool experience. While waiting for one of the ceremonies to start (there were three seperate ceremonies, mostly due to the large number of Veterans and their families who participated) a guy from NPR came over to the band and did an interview with me. I only had the one sound bite make it into the story (about 2:35 in), but at least they said my name and got a snippet of us playing. Just another day at the office...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111963980
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It's too bad they misspelled your name in the printed transcript. SERGEANT Jeremy Powell? I tried to post a comment to NPR to get the name changed, but was unsuccessful.
Way to go Jeremy... on national news!
Ah, I can finally say I am related to someone famous.
That was the most exciting 15 seconds of my day. :-)
Welcome to the big time, bro. Next you'll have half a second of airtime on a national primetime show like I did. That's when you know you've arrived!
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