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Show it: opiixig vine - Springville Musician-Soldier Tells Of Orchestra's Travels in Europe d ti. it. a won- 'language fnm wonderful July of this year. Sincerely, STEVE CLARK 'stuttgart, Germany ; 7 May 1956 I would like to take time to express my gratitude for your sending the Herald to me while I have been in the service. It as always a pleasure to be able to read about the happenings and events that take place in the old home town. I have certainly been very fortunate fort-unate during my time in the army because the larger part of it has been spent in Europe touring with the 7th Army Symphony orchestra. orches-tra. A group of mostly professional profes-sional musicians, who having been drafted, are among the few people peo-ple in the army who have the opportunity op-portunity of working in the field that they know best. The orchestra has toured in Germany, Italy, Holland, Denmark, Den-mark, Great Britain, twice in France and soon they will be on their way to Luxembourg. At different dif-ferent times on tour, when billeting billet-ing was unavailable, we were given the opportunity of entering into private homes for a night or two and becoming a member of the family for a short time. This proved to be very interesting and educational. All-in-all my time in the service ser-vice has proven to be most profitable pro-fitable for which I am very thankful. The orchestra, I feel, is doing a wonderful work as representatives repre-sentatives of the American people. peo-ple. Our concerts being almost entirely for the European peoples, has given us the opportunity to express to them our thoughts, ideals, and our desires for a free world, which can be expressed partly through the international |