Happy 4th July

[CarlS]

We did and my dad enjoyed it, too.

 

[CarlS]

I wanted to post this in keeping with Independence Day here in the USA. I think it is a very neat expression of the holiday. It is not meant to put any other country down nor glorify American patriotism. I just think it is very cool.

[video=youtube;X5lbNXNn3CI][video=youtube;X5lbNXNn3CI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lbNXNn3CI&feature=share[/video][/video]

 

[The Seeker]

......you mean they weren't arrested and sentenced to years in prison for disturbing the peace?

Eric Holder is slipping these days!

 

[DaveM]

Very well done and it looks like the shoppers had a blast from it

 

[avion]

Hey that's cool, are they just volunteers?

What tune are they playing?

 

[CarlS]

Yes, they were just volunteers. They are a group that performs, however. The tune is Stars and Stripes Forever by John Phillips Suza. He composed it in 1896. It is a traditional march tune and is still played by bands today - high school, collegiate, and military bands. I have marched to it many a time.

 

[DaveM]

Well lucky I never took a dip at it as I would have said it was this one

[video=youtube;FNkcydLzuKk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNkcydLzuKk[/video]

 

[The Seeker]

John Phillip Sousa was a composer and leader of the US Marine Corps Band. He also wrote "Semper Fidelis", the official march of the US Marine Corps.

Some of you might recognize the tune from Monte Python:

[video=youtube;nz9tLug9rfY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz9tLug9rfY[/video]

This is the Marine Corps Band performing Semper Fidelis at John Phillip Sousa's grave in Arlington Cemetery (this is an annual event)

 

[CarlS]

LOL And you would have missed it by 120 years!

 

[DaveM]

LOL And you would have missed it by 120 years!

Oh well what's a 120 years between friend then anyway

 

[CarlS]

 

[avion]

thanks