You’d wake up in the mornings on Saturdays to the marching band right out in front of your house, marching by”

-Joanna Geer, a teenager at Fort Slocum during the Second World War

(interviewed 2007)

I played the piccolo…in tight formation, yes. Colonel Lentz had a problem. He says ‘Why aren’t the trombones all playing in unison, the same way?’  He wanted everything in unison.”

 

-Zoltan (Zip) Zantay, Fort Slocum band member 1943 to 1945

(interviewed 2008)