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Letters of Note: Music is Life Itself

June 13, 2012  by Chris Wiley

Swiss Kriss display at the Louis Armstrong House in Queens, NYC.

Here’s a link of note: Louis Armstrong’s 1967 letter to a Marine stationed in Vietnam. Louis was big into the Swiss Kriss — and music, of course. The picture here is the Swiss Kriss display at the Louis Armstrong House in Queens, New York. Link: Letters of Note: Music is life itself [@archive.org].

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