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WWII vet hears his symphony for first time

May 14, 2025 Antarctica Journal

■ A World War II veteran was able to hear a symphony he wrote 67 years ago for the first time, when the U.S. Army Orchestra premiered it in Washington, D.C. Retired Col. Harold Van Heuvelen, 93, was inspired by his experiences as a soldier to write a symphony in 1945, but it languished on the shelf for decades and […]

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The Yellow Birds

February 23, 2015 Antarctica Journal

Iraq War veteran and first-time author Kevin Powers has written a war novel that “can stand beside All Quiet on the Western Front or The Red Badge of Courage” said John Burnside in The Guardian (U.K.). Narrated by Pvt. John Bartle, a 21-year-old U.S. Army soldier, this “extraordinary” book tells us precisely what it was like to be a combatant […]

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