Memorial Day Playlist

There's a story behind the 75 flags that Bill Giambrone taps into formation around his Norristown apartment building every year about this time.

He says he hopes people will remember what he cannot forget.

Bill's 88, a retired barber, a great grandfather who remains with the woman he married two months before he was drafted during World War II. Today's metro column is about a flight in July of 1944. The last time the radio operator and gunner saw eight good friends was when he grabbed onto the camera hatch of their B-24 as the German guns blazed about 20,000 feet over Romania, and then plane started to belly up. Giambrone grabbed for his parachute cord.

So click "play," and listen to some songs about soldiering, memory and loss.