We remember this weekend that Glenn Miller disappeared over The English Channel 69 years ago.   His plane was lost in route to Paris, where he was going to play for the troops that had just liberated France.  We don't know much about his disappearance but there are some reports that his small plane may have been hit by RAF bombers dropping their bombs into the waters of channel, or the "friendly fire" theory.  In other words, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Glenn Miller's influence went beyond music as any veteran from that period will tell you. He was too old to be drafted at 38 but he joined the service anyway: "Getting his band off the ground was not an easy feat, but Miller and his band caught a break when Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, visited Miller's unit. Miller was called into his commanding officer's office, where Arnold was sitting. Miller's commander...(Read Full Post)