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BlueKota

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33. My sister and a friend of hers

Reply to Skittles (Reply #25)

Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:50 PM

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from her high-school band days watched a few minutes of the parade. Her friend said, if they had ever marched out of step as badly as some of the troops were, their band director, would have gone bat-shit crazy at them. He said you could tell the soldiers didn't want to be there.

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