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Or to start the music. joey: as a marine i learned to drill with a rifle in my hand. i could not imagine marching with an instrument playing in my hand. when you joined the marine corps did you know you would be in band doing this in front of important people. yes, i did. every single person here had to take an audition before we rose our right hands to join the marine corps. all of us were recruited specifically to play. what i didn t know all of the amazing opportunities i have had this being one of them. joey: guys, right before they play they call them to attention they bring the instruments up. amazing to see the amount of discipline is phenomenal. gunnery sergeant i m familiar with john phillips souza one of the wil legendary pleerns. stars and stripes forever. the washington post. what type of legacy exists with music in the marine corps? it s a very historic legacy. even started all the way back when the united states marine corps came back into existence ....
Retired. i was sitting on the curb about half a block from where these shootings actually occurred. but didn t know it at the time. i was thinking, you know, everyone has been so tense lately and isn t it nice to celebrate our 246th birthday as a country. and i m sitting there and they had the police presence came with the lights blaring and families waving from cars and then came all the ambulances and rescue vehicles and i m thinking, oh, i hope nobody gets sick or gets hurt. because they re all here. and then you had some people on horses and some vets and then the highland park high school marching band, dressed in blue and white. so the band goes by and they re playing, i think, stars and stripes forever, and it is very nice, and all of a sudden, i see the band members racing toward me, to go to the parking lot, right behind me, which led it a grocery store. ....