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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-07-08 17:43
Notice the clarinetists are the largest group? Must be the clarinet's close resemblance to a rifle.
The next time at Thanksgiving you need one of those funky flare-barreled guns to complete your Pilgrim costume, just hold your clarinet bell-up.e
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Author: larryb
Date: 2004-07-08 17:57
and the saxophonists probably double on clarinet - that's seven called up from our tribe!
this should lay to rest the strings v. winds pay disparity debate
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Author: Tara
Date: 2004-07-09 03:15
John Stewart just did a bit on this on his show (The Daily Show) on Comedy Central. Pretty funny, but obvious that the important service of military musicians is not understood by the general public...
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Author: Igloo Bob
Date: 2004-07-09 03:33
I'm not sure that I completely understand. Tara's post and the last line of larryb's post seem to imply that these old musicians are being brought back into the military as musicians. Truth? That doesn't make much sense to me, if all the other reserves are being called back into "real" military duty.
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Author: CPW
Date: 2004-07-09 14:24
A call to my buddy DEEPTHROATONES at the Pentagon elicited this response:
(lights cigarette in dark garage)
"well, CP (he uses my first name) it is like this....see, (coughs) the recall was initiated by the need to do that great American(sic) song (another sic)
the 1812 Overature, and we needed more instruments. We had to recall the ceremonial cannon fodder...er, I mean gunnery troops, too, so do not complain."
(hitches up trenchcoat and disappears into darkness)
CPW looks down, sees manuscript on the greasy paving...retrieves it slowly.
Reading and squinting in the darkness, a folder marked "eyes only", and signed by a D. Leeson...Inside, in faded scrawl on parchment, fragile with age........
Shots ring out.........
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Author: larryb
Date: 2004-07-09 16:44
Igloo Bob,
I think in the article General Cody indicated that these musicians were indeed needed as such to play at "real" soldiers' funerals and other memorial services.
I guess CPW finds that funny.
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Author: CPW
Date: 2004-07-09 17:11
No larryb, I do NOT find the deployment or redeployment of troops funny.
Please note the cynical nature of the writing. "Military intelligence" is my favorite definition of an oxymoron.
Perhaps you did not recognize the literary allusion to a previous governmental scandal (Watergate) and also to Dan Leeson's new book about the "Mozart Forgeries."
Also, my item was written in response to the mention of John Stewart and his Comedy Central item, following the lead in the same manner, and taking the opportunity that this window provided.
Against the windmills of my mind
The jousting pole splinters
Post Edited (2004-07-09 17:17)
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Author: Bellflare
Date: 2004-07-10 19:41
i got it!
like all the presidents men meets the cig guy from x files
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Author: Igloo Bob
Date: 2004-07-11 00:01
Ah, I see. Well, I guess being brought back in as musicians isn't so bad as being in semi-active combat. Of course, either way, I can certainly see why many people would take offense.
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