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The Social Media Contributor Comments: January 18, 2013

 

 
Strike up the Military Band

for the 2013 Inauguration

 We’ve survived the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign;
 now it time to start politics and government anew.
 2009 ushered in the inauguration of the Nation’s first
 African-American President . 2013 will renew the  incumbent president’s second term. Without regard to  political affiliations, inaugural ceremonies and parades
 are an exciting time at the Nation’s Capital.
Each and every inaugural ceremony has had three major components or ingredients:
 
        1)   An elected Presdiential Leader (newly-elected or an infrequent 2nd-termer).
        2)   PEOPLE…PEOPLE…PEOPLE
        3) Military Bands

 Points 1 and 2 are immensely important, yet no inaugural ceremony would be complete
 without the inclusion of one or two (or three or four) Military Bands.
 
 

 
 
 I began to reflect upon the importance of Military Bands while viewing one of the Sunday morning talk
 shows. The show mentioned, via audio and video media, the Old Guard Military Band.
 
 The commentator stated that the Band has been practicing for the last two weeks.
 
 Does any of this create a Déjà vu for any of the MilitaryBandsman alumni readers?

 

THE OLD GUARD BAND*

 

THE NAVY BAND

 

THE MARINE CORPS BAND

 

THE AIR FORCE BAND

 
As Mr. (Lawrence) Welk used to say, “Strike Up the Band; aOneandaTwoandA..”Doesn’t all
of this Hoopla make you want to go outside, instrument-in-hand, and REPORT for DRILL BAND!

* Footnote: There is no group known as the ‘Old Guard Band’. The musical ensembles in the video are known as
  the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” and The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps.
  As noted by Mitchell Spray [ via Facebook – www.facebook.com/mitchell.spray ]

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