What does a pebble from Burma in 1944 have to do with discovering another WWII Melillo vet on 1 July 2024?
Upon returning from Luxembourg after recording Chapter 89, I didn't unpack. Instead, I composed "In You I Live Again,"…
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Upon returning from Luxembourg after recording Chapter 89, I didn't unpack. Instead, I composed "In You I Live Again,"…
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Alone Again… Naturally
Father's Day
A Timestorm Epitaph
"I remember I cried when my father died, never wishing to hide the tears."
In 1971-72, I was the smallest, youngest player on Iona Prep's undefeated, un-scored upon "Fighting Irish" Frosh football…
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Dedicated to "SSIM" and a much larger Story, that one day, must be told. This article appeared in the June 2019 Issue of "The Journal of the Association of Concert Bands".
“Never Forgotten” has been played around the world. People…
Feb 10 2024
10 FEB 2024
On the Birthday of Hero, Jerry Goldsmith
D-9 for Luxembourg
WARNING: Much here! Ready for the told and untold stories?
Chapter 3 (Grade 2-3) “The Search for Truefire!”
S T O R M Q U E S…
Jan 8 2024
For teens and people who love them.
There’s only 1 way to be 65 years old and resurrect a book written while you’re a teenager, about a teenager, for the teens you’ll one day…
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The “world” constantly unleashes its wars, its divisions, its dictates against reason, its fomenting of hatred, and a list you well know. Now imagine LOVE unleashed, a Love of Humanity, a True Romantic Love, a Timeless Love.
The “Ahab, &…
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The Beautiful Rats
By © Stephen Melillo, IGNA 2 FEB 2023
Dedicated to Sir Edward Lisk
“Hey, you ever heard the story of the ugly duckling?”
“Nope.”
“Okay, so once upon a time there was this rockin' rat named Rocco.”
…
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