When I was in high school (De La Salle) we were a 55 c ROTC school. We were in uniform every day. A 55c school did more ROTC than a normal high school that had an ROTC unit.
We also marched each year in the Kansas City veterans day parade.
Other ROTC units were taken by bus downtown for the parade and then by a bus back to school.
Our school battalion (500 students) marched from the school to the start of the parade site and then marched in the parade and then at the end of the parade we marched back to the school.
We carried M1s except for officers that carried swords (they also were issued carbines).
Before the start of each school day we had formation in front of the school for the entire battalion and the colors were raised with sound to the colors etc. It sent chills up and down my spine every day.
Each Friday the second half of the day was for a full dress parade in Parade Park which was across the street from De La Salle.
De La Salle was a Catholic all male high school taught by the Christian Brothers.
I do not have any video or even still photos of the weekly parade so here is a video from the United States Military Academy to give you an idea of what the weekly parade was like. West Point however has about 1,300 (college) cadets and we had 500 (high school) cadets.
November 11th is a Friday, not a Sunday.
Posted by: Matt | Monday, November 07, 2011 at 15:01
Thanks. Now that I do not work I never know what day or what month it is.. Smile
I will go and edit the post here pretty soon.
Posted by: Jim Howard | Monday, November 07, 2011 at 16:50