KENtuckyKEN. Absolutely beautiful story on the power of music.I've always said that one of the reasons that I so badly wanted my own children to learn a musical instrument is because music is truly the most universal language in the world. I was so proud and humbled when my two sons played trumpet and my daughter took up clarinet. My oldest son played the same trumpet that I played in high school. I don't know if those kids of mine ever knew that I held back tears many a time when their school band marched in the annual Maquoketa, Iowa Octoberfest of Bands.