Klarinet Archive - Posting 000827.txt from 1999/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] school music programs(kinda defending corps too)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:08:27 -0400

PSHIROM wrote>
> I (not Jnbradner) wrote:
>I learned to march in the service, and having that skill has not
> helped
> me at all in
> my life. >> >>
>
> I should hope that learning how walk smoothly from one place to another is
> not all you learned. I know that marching has taught me a lot about
working
> together as a group, listening and following directions, and discipline.

Getting shot at during the final phases of the US involvement in Vietnam
taught me about working together as a group, listening, following
directions, giving directions, and discipline.

I wouldn't want to subject anyone to that just for the "experience", either.

Mark Charette@-----.org

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