Veteran's Day
It was November of my Senior Year in High School. The band director, my favorite teacher in the school, tagged me and another drummer at the end of Concert Band. We had been heading out, but he managed to corral us for a moment. We had no idea that, in a few months, the room we were standing in would be abandoned because a portion of the rear of the building - the building which had two upper floors that had been closed off due to the deterioration of the building that had been built in 1891, if I recall correctly. But it was there, the risers around us taking the upper level in the rear of the room about three feet above the lower area where we entered and the band director's podium stood next to the piano. He had been asked by someone - he was vague as to whom - if he could find a couple of drummers to participate in a Veteran's Day observance out at the Veteran's Home. Well, we knew where it was - it had been the destination of every Memo...