Rick Linton will be discussing Herrin’s own Egyptian Combo at the Herrin City Library on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 2:00 pm. Meet the rock band the U.S. enlisted to help win the Vietnam War.  Their story was recently featured in Rolling Stone magazine on September 8, 2024.  From the article, “The surviving members of the Screaming Eagles Combo were a group of Illinois musicians recruited to distract Vietnamese villagers with Motown covers:  “We went where Bob Hope didn’t go.”