Star Wars

I wrote about this on Facebook a while ago, but decided I wanted to include it on this blog:

On the last day of school for seniors this past spring you had your last band concert. (I always thought that was a rough thing to do for them to make the seniors come back already-plus it was a Friday night plus I think it was Memorial Day weekend.) Anyway, I was a little sad thinking that this was your last band concert ever, but I was ok throughout the concert in general, as I had been preparing for this for the past few years.
    The concert was very good-it was a Collage Concert which means that different groups play one after the other-the whole Wind Ensemble, different soloists, smaller groups, etc. Usually these can be annoying because they drag on and on, but this was one was ok. The last song of the concert was the theme from Star Wars, which I thought for some reason that the band played earlier in the year. Anyway, the band started to play it, and it was so good. It sounded so professional. I never realized how many different tunes were all part of the movie, like the love theme, action themes, the tune for Darth Vader, etc. As the band moved through each part, each was better than the one before. Before I knew it, big tears were rolling down my cheeks. I couldn't believe how it was affecting me. I looked at Dad and he didn't really have any unusual reaction.
   It took me a while to calm down after the song was over and then they had the part where they honored the seniors at the end (all of the seniors had red carnations on). Anyway, after the fact, I told you how good I thought it was and how it made my cry and you kind of shrugged it off. I even asked other parents, like Sheryl Calder, when we were discussing the band concert if they were blown away by Star Wars or were emotional at all and they didn't experience what I had experienced. Sheryl just thought it was because it was the last song and she said she had a similar experience at Kristin's last dance recital.
     It wasn't until your funeral, you silly, that I found out when Mr. Lampman was giving his speech about you, that YOU were the one that suggested the band play the Star Wars theme. He commented on your love of movies and that you were wanting the band to play a song from a movie and this was the one. I realized at that moment why that song affected me so much. I must have sensed something extra special about it. God bless you my special boy!