StoryCorps Shorts: The Echoes of War
Special | 2m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
A WW II vet tells his grandson about when he was called up for a special assignment.
Towards the end of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small village in Belgium near the border with Germany. At StoryCorps, he tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about being called upon for a special assignment.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...
StoryCorps Shorts: The Echoes of War
Special | 2m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Towards the end of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small village in Belgium near the border with Germany. At StoryCorps, he tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about being called upon for a special assignment.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ ♪♪ -I was an 18-year-old boy, and, uh, I blew the bugle in our outfit.
If a young man is killed in action or dies defending his country, you blow "Taps" over his grave.
And it just...
There's no way to describe it, the emotion that you feel, knowing that those notes is going out.
And I remember... [ Clears throat ] ...the war was over just a few days, and they asked me to blow "Taps" for all who died in the war.
We climbed this high hill.
It was like a mountaintop, and my battalion was at the bottom.
I blew those "Taps"... [ "Taps" plays ] ...and when I did, the men said it floated out across all that valley, and said it was beautiful.
♪♪ They were all telling me how -- how good it sounded and what a tribute it was to our fallen comrades.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...