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Post by VeeVee on May 25, 2009 20:23:40 GMT -5
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Post by VeeVee on May 25, 2009 20:27:38 GMT -5
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Post by VeeVee on May 25, 2009 20:38:54 GMT -5
Memorial Day at the American Cemetery at Fort McKinley/Bonifacio in Manila. (click for bigger)   |
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Post by 26th on May 25, 2009 22:56:40 GMT -5
Victor;
Great pictures>
The cannons the cadets were riding on, are they real? Midnight raid for one of those.
Is this town close buy? It felt weird not doing the parade after 20 years. I was and still am burned out from all those years.
Thanks for sharing, I do love parades.
Rudy
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Post by VeeVee on May 26, 2009 5:59:40 GMT -5
Yes this town is near where I live. But I also lived there for 5 years from 1997-2002. It was great to show the cadets to my kid. I keep threatening to send her to military academy when she grows up to straighten her out. She said those schools on TV aren't even real... well I showed her the cadets in the parade and drove by the school. haha.
The artillery looked real to me. Maybe they're demilled like drill rifles. I don't know.
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Post by RayAdillO on May 26, 2009 7:33:12 GMT -5
VeeVee, the main advantage of a service academy is you won't need a college fund. Send her to West Point, or better yet the Naval Academy (the one with a much better football team), he, he, he. It's nice to see that the American Boy Scouts are back to wearing the good ol' felt montana peak hat just as Lord Baden-Powell prescribed more than a hundred years ago. I just realized that the cadet dress gray jacket of Valley Forge is just like the pre-war PMA academic jacket (brass buttons instead of the buttons hidden by a stripe of black mohair ala U.S.M.A.), I'd sure like to get one.    |
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Post by 26th on May 26, 2009 9:28:02 GMT -5
Hey Ray
I am sure Victor could find one in the local goodwill. Those kids come and go during the academy's time.
Get out and go hunting Victor.
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Post by VeeVee on May 26, 2009 21:48:41 GMT -5
That's a good idea! Maybe I'll get one for my own collection. Hmmm...
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