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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- About 60 Utah County high school musicians will travel to France this summer for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
The band will play on the Normandy beach in northern France, performing for dignitaries and veterans. Later, they will play a private concert at the cemetery that is the final resting place for U-S soldiers and sailors who died in the invasion.
The band director is David Fullmer, who teaches music at both Timpview High School and Utah Valley State College. He says they will honor the sacrifices of all veterans.
Fullmer says band members are required to research and write reports on the invasion, and they are to talk to veterans of the June sixth, 1944, invasion.
The students must pay their own way. The students will also perform in London and Paris.
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