During pitching changes, amidst the bar noise and multiple unrelated table conversations, Mac, who had been a senior US Army Quartermaster during World War II, told his daughter a story that began with the arrival in Italy of the 10th Mountain Division, a few days before Christmas, 1944.
The high mountain battlefield -- that appeared in the third image painted on the circumference of the music box -- was, Mac revealed, in the Apennine mountain range that stretched across Northern Italy. "Eight miles deep and 108 miles wide, the German 'Gothic Line' controlled the high ground. As long as Nazi Artillery held this territory, it would be difficult for the Allies to move North."
At the other end of the rehearsal dinner table, Edelira, for whom the gold silk blouse she was wearing, was casual attire, was telling JuanJose (hot-handsome in a vintage black leather jacket) a story. Her hands animated a flow of words that could not be deciphered amidst the pervasive Sports Bar noise. Meanwhile, wearing his idea of LL Bean chic, Claude was writing equations on a napkin -- as if in the midst of beer and nachos, a solution had occurred.