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  BEFORE YOU READ   from OnlineNewsHour Extra, July 12, 1999
from Make Music, Not War
by Megan Vandergrift
 
   
Two years ago a boy in Indiana looked at pictures of bombed buildings and people living in fear and felt helpless and afraid. The war was in Bosnia. . . .
Then he came across a story about a cello player honoring the memory of friends who had been killed by a bomb. The musician was playing his cello while bombs dropped around him. He had decided not to fight back with guns, but to express his anger and sorrow with music.

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From “Make Music, Not War” by Megan Vandergrift from Online News Hour Extra, July 12, 1999, accessed September 10, 2001, at www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/july-dec99/crowe.html. Copyright © 1999 by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
 
   
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