Editing Glenn Miller (section)

==Posthumous events==
Numerous archives, museums and memorials in the United States and England are devoted to Miller.<ref>In June 2009, it was announced that the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society in Clarinda, Iowa, was building a 5,600-foot museum to house "memorabilia from [Glenn Miller's] musical career". The museum in Glenn Miller's birthplace has been in the works since 1990, according to the [https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-06-21-glenn-miller-museum_N.htm USA Today article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604070623/http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-06-21-glenn-miller-museum_N.htm |date=June 4, 2011 }}.</ref> Herb Miller, Miller's brother, led his own band in the United States and England until the late 1980s.<ref>[http://nfo.net/usa/m3.html "Big Bands Database Plus"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211193903/http://nfo.net/usa/m3.html |date=February 11, 2007 }}, ''Nfo.net''. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=John Miller Orchestra Home |url=http://www.johnmillerorchestra.org.uk/cgi-bin/JohnMiller/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820220557/http://www.johnmillerorchestra.org.uk/cgi-bin/JohnMiller/index.html |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |access-date=August 27, 2007}}</ref>

In 1953, [[Universal-International]] pictures released ''[[The Glenn Miller Story]]'', starring [[James Stewart]]; Ray Eberle, Marion Hutton, and Tex Beneke neither appear in nor are referred to in it.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 17, 2012 |title=The Glenn Miller Story |url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/21733%7C0/The-Glenn-Miller-Story.html;jsessionid=A10882BEEF6CF0DBB23843CC7FC6DC41 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117184047/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/21733%7C0/The-Glenn-Miller-Story.html;jsessionid=A10882BEEF6CF0DBB23843CC7FC6DC41 |archive-date=January 17, 2012 |access-date=September 29, 2021}}</ref>

Annual festivals celebrating Miller's legacy are held in two of the towns most associated with his youth, Clarinda, Iowa, and Fort Morgan, Colorado.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 5, 2018 |title=Glenn Miller Swing Fest {{!}} June 7–9 |url=https://www.kuvo.org/glenn-miller-swing-fest-june-7-9/ |access-date=February 6, 2024 |website=KUVO |language=en-US |archive-date=February 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206205858/https://www.kuvo.org/glenn-miller-swing-fest-june-7-9/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Festival |url=https://www.glennmiller.org/festival |access-date=February 6, 2024 |website=glennmiller1 |language=en |archive-date=February 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206205859/https://www.glennmiller.org/festival |url-status=live }}</ref>{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Since 1975, the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society has held its annual Glenn Miller Festival in Clarinda, Iowa.<ref name="arlington" /> The festival's highlights include performances by the official [[Glenn Miller Orchestra]] under the direction of Nick Hilscher, and many other civilian and military jazz bands. It also includes visits to the restored Miller home, the Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum, historical displays from the Glenn Miller Archives at the University of Colorado, lectures and presentations about Miller's life, and a scholarship competition for young classical and jazz musicians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://glennmiller.org/ |title=Glenn Miller Birthplace Society |website=Glennmiller.org |access-date=July 27, 2017 |archive-date=June 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623160414/http://glennmiller.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1989, Miller's daughter bought the house where Miller was born in Clarinda.<ref name="millerhistory" /> The Glenn Miller Foundation was created to oversee its restoration. It is now part of the Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum. The Glenn Miller Birthplace Society celebrated when the US Postal Service issued a Glenn Miller postage stamp in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Artist: Bill Nelson |first=Art director: Howard E. Paine |title=Art of the Stamp - Big Band Leaders: Glenn Miller, First day of issue: September 11, 1996. |url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/art-of-the-stamp-the-artwork-arts-and-entertainment/big-band-leaders-glenn-miller |access-date=October 31, 2022 |website=Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031211818/https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/art-of-the-stamp-the-artwork-arts-and-entertainment/big-band-leaders-glenn-miller |url-status=live }}</ref>

Every summer since 1996, the city of Fort Morgan, Colorado, has hosted a public event called the Glenn Miller SwingFest. Miller graduated from Fort Morgan High School, where he played football and other sports, was on the yearbook staff, was in the orchestra, and formed his own band with classmates. Events include musical performances and swing dancing, community picnics, lectures, and fundraising for scholarships to attend the School for the Performing Arts,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theschoolfortheperformingarts.org/ |title=The School for the Performing Arts |publisher=The School for the Performing Arts |access-date=July 27, 2017 |archive-date=July 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724015432/http://theschoolfortheperformingarts.org/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> a nonprofit dance, voice, piano, percussion, guitar, violin, and drama studio program in Fort Morgan. Each year, about 2,000 people attend this summer festival, which serves to introduce younger generations to the music Miller made famous, as well as the style of dance and dress popular in the big-band era.

The Glenn Miller Archives<ref name=":6" /> at the University of Colorado at Boulder houses many of Miller's recordings, gold records and other memorabilia. It is also open to scholarly research and the general public.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://music.colorado.edu/departments/amrc/gma/ |title=Glenn Miller Archive |publisher=University of Colorado |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713194729/http://music.colorado.edu/departments/amrc/gma/ |archive-date=July 13, 2012 }}</ref><ref>"CU Boulder remembers remarkable, longtime campus fixture Alan Cass", CU Boulder Today, University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO. Retrieved October 31, 2022.</ref> Formed by Alan Cass, the Glenn Miller Archives<ref name=":6" /> includes the original manuscript of Miller's theme song, "Moonlight Serenade".<ref name="arlington" /><ref>[http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/184.html "CU-Boulder's Glenn Miller Archive Receives Major Gift Including Seldom-Heard Music"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605170342/http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/184.html |date=June 5, 2011 }}, ''University of Colorado at Boulder'' (May 1, 2007). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.</ref>

In 1957, a Student Union Building was completed at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus and the ballroom was named the Glenn Miller Ballroom.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In 2002, the Glenn Miller Museum opened to the public at the former [[RAF Twinwood Farm]], in [[Clapham, Bedfordshire]], England.<ref>[http://www.twinwoodevents.com/Glenn%20Miller.htm "Glenn Miller"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019015626/http://www.twinwoodevents.com/Glenn%20Miller.htm |date=October 19, 2008 }}. ''Twinwoodevents.com'' (August 30, 2010). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.</ref>

Miller's name is engraved as Alton G. Miller on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the [[Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial]] run by the American Battle Monuments Commission in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.<ref name="arlington" /> The names of Flight Officer John R. S. Morgan and Lieutenant Colonel Norman Baessell are also carved there.

Miller's government-issued, white marble, memorial headstone is located in Memorial Section H (# 464-A) by Wilson Drive at [[Arlington National Cemetery]], Arlington, Virginia.<ref name="arlington" /> The Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra Memorial American Holly can be seen from there.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web|title=MEMORIAL TREES AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY {{!}} TREE #78, Section 13: Army Air Forces Orchestra (Glenn Miller) – American Holly |url=https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Portals/0/Docs/Memorial%20Trees%20Updated%209-5-2014.pdf?ver=2020-08-27-190631-920 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028043452/https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Portals/0/Docs/Memorial%20Trees%20Updated%209-5-2014.pdf?ver=2020-08-27-190631-920 |archive-date=2022-10-28 }}</ref>

A Miller fan, Peter Cofrancesco, bought a gravesite at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut, and placed a black granite cenotaph there.<ref name="NYT1999">{{cite news |last=Papazian |first=Rita |date=January 31, 1999 |title=Glenn Miller's New Haven Connection |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/31/nyregion/glenn-miller-s-new-haven-connection.html |access-date=November 8, 2014 |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109100059/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/31/nyregion/glenn-miller-s-new-haven-connection.html |url-status=live }}</ref>&nbsp; He has no relationship to Major Miller's family.&nbsp; Here is the inscription along with corrections that could be made if it is ever replaced or moved to a non-grave location. &nbsp;An etching of Major Miller in uniform / IN MEMORY / Major&nbsp;A. [ Alton] Glenn Miller / 0505273 / US Army Air Force [Forces] - W. W. II / Born- Clarinda, Iowa -&nbsp; /&nbsp; March 1, 1904 / Missing in Action [ / Died] / Europe, December 15, 1944 / 1943-1944 / 418th A.A.F.T.T.C. Band- [AKA Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra] / Yale University- New Haven, CT. / I SUSTAIN THE WINGS / Sustineo Alas.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Papazian |first=Rita |date=January 31, 1999 |title="Glenn Miller's New Haven Connection" |pages=14 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/31/nyregion/glenn-miller-s-new-haven-connection.html |access-date=October 19, 2022 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406171516/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/31/nyregion/glenn-miller-s-new-haven-connection.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Miller was awarded a Star for Recording on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.<ref name="arlington" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/glenn-miller/ |title=Hollywood Star Walk-Glenn Miller |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=November 8, 2014 |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021180550/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/glenn-miller/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The headquarters of the United States Air Forces in Europe Band at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, is named Glenn Miller Hall.<ref name="arlington" />

On June 25, 1999, the Nebraska State Highway Commission unanimously agreed to name Nebraska Highway 97 between North Platte, where Miller attended elementary school, and Tryon, where the Miller family briefly lived, as Glenn Miller Memorial Highway.