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The Marines landed in Novi and Livonia this week, in case you didn’t hear.
The U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon conducted an approximately 15-minute performance June 1 in front of a crowd at Novi s Fuerst Park, one stop on its nationwide tour.
The 24-man ensemble’s synchronized routine, in which they wield 10-pound M1 Garand rifles with fixed bayonets is performed without cadence or spoken orders and ends with a sequence demonstrating spins and tosses of their rifles.
“I was impressed with two things as a community, the respect we had in silence; and second, the discipline that was required to do all the moves in silent unison,” Karen Bulbuk, who attended with her two grandchildren, said. “It was beyond impressive.”
Instead of an in-person parade along Pennsylvania Avenue, Bidens inaugural committee on Monday provided details about a virtual “Parade Across America” that will start at 3:15 Wednesday afternoon after Bidens swearing-in.
Biden Will Kick Off Inaugural Events at a Ceremony Honoring Victims of Covid-19
Events on Wednesday, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of office, will have a more celebratory theme.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. worked a conveyor belt assembling food boxes with his daughter and granddaughter in Philadelphia on Monday.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Jan. 18, 2021
WASHINGTON President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will arrive in the nation’s capital on Tuesday evening for an inauguration eve ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool honoring the nearly 400,000 people who have died during the coronavirus pandemic that will be his first priority after he is sworn in the next day.