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11 Nov 2021

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John Philip Sousa’s Birthday Celebration

This year, as every year, Congressional Cemetery celebrated John Philip Sousa’s birthday. We sent a whole team of photographers to cover it. After a brief cemetery-which included John Philip Sousa[1] himself…

[1] May not be an accurate statement. (IHP)
…and Some Guy receiving the Connolly-Didden Docent of the Year Award for 2020 (AVNH)
…the main event turned up: The “President’s Own” United States Marine Band. (RSP)
The band has been showing up on November 6th for decades; for many years, they would be quite alone in this endeavor. (RSP)
Today, especially as it was a beautiful Fall Saturday, hundreds of people showed up to celebrate with them (IHP)
The event was short and sweet. If you want to watch it, you can do so here – well, just the band’s part of it. (RSP)

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