What are you all listening to?
I've got Tom Petty going here
The guy was a boss!
You?
John Philip Sousa Birthday Celebration - Nov. 6, 2021
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dKfM2ctGmE&t=3m20s
does the military do this for general patton?
shareWhen I was in the marines we celebrated the Marine Corps birthday on November 11. I don't recall celebrating the birthdays of individual marines, but it may happen here and there on an ad hoc basis. The Sousa thing is probably local to D.C. where he is buried (and where the video is from). I don't know how long they have been doing it.
shareso they do this every year?
shareSousa's birthday, I don't know.
The Marine Corps Birthday is one of the highlights, if not THE highlight, of the Marines social calendar. Fancy balls and such. I never attended one. But the chow hall goes all out with a special meal. Yummy stuff, the cooks outdo themselves. That I definitely sampled. It's pretty much the equivalent of the Thanksgiving or Christmas meal.
I want you to remember, no one won a war by celebrating his birthday. He won it by surprising the other dumb bastards while they were celebrating their birthdays.
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