Who???

[DocGreek]

ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW WHO THIS GENTLEMAN WAS???

[sparkie]

Looks alot like Sousa,,,,Not a Marine.

[ecfree]

ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW WHO THIS GENTLEMAN WAS???Attachment 8214

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA---------
NUMBNUTS......

[Ed Palmer]

Here is a picture of his twin

[DocGreek]

NOT A MARINE???....BETTER LOOK IT UP!! WAS ENLISTED INTO THE MARINES AT AGE 13, BY HIS DAD...SERVED 8 YEARS, TILL 1875!!

[sparkie]

Gee, that wasn't in the movie,,,,,,,,,

[Ed Palmer]

John Philip SousaJohn Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 - March 6, 1932), is probably the most famous conductor and composer in history of military marches. He wrote well over 100 marches; some of his most popular are:

Semper Fidelis (1888)
The Washington Post March (1889)
The Thunderer (1889)
The Liberty Bell (1893)
Manhattan Beach March (1893)
King Cotton (1895)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896)
El Capitan (1896)
Hands Across the Sea (1899)
Fairest of the Fair (1908)
U.S. Field Artillery (1917)
The Gallant Seventh (1922)
The Black Horse Troop (1924)
Daughters of Texas (1929)
The marching brass bass, or sousaphone, is named after him.

Sousa's musical education began when he was seven years old. At the age of 13, he was enrolled as an apprentice with the United States Marine Corps Band. He left it after several years to join a theatrical band. He soon began conducting, and returned to the Marine Band as its head in 1880. During this time Sousa also led the marching band of Gonzaga College High School.

Sousa organized his own band in 1892. It toured widely, and in 1900 represented the United States at the Paris Exposition before touring Europe. Sousa repeatedly refused to conduct on the radio, fearing the lack of personal contact with the audience; he was persuaded to do so in 1929, and was very successful.

In addition to hundreds of marches, Sousa wrote ten operas and a number of musical suites.

Sousa exhibited many talents aside from music. He authored three novels and a full length autobiography as well as a great number of articles and letters-to-the-editor on a variety of subjects. As a trapshooter, he ranks as one of the all-time greats and his skill as a horseman met championship criteria.

He was in the vanguard of the reactionary camp in the music piracy wars of his era (cf. Recording Industry Association of America), in which authors of sheet music railed against the upstart recording industry. In a submission to a congressional hearing in 1906, he argued that:

These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy ... in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

[DocGreek]

...SPARKY...got that info from the J.P.S. website/biography. He was a tough taskmaster...his way, OR HIT THE ROAD!!
H*LL OF A MAN!!...

[DocGreek]

....OKAY, YOU NUMBNUTS!!!...ANYONE RECOGNIZE THIS GENTLEMAN???.....

[ecfree]

POSER,,,NOT A MARINE....

[DocGreek]

....DOUBLE SMILIES!!!...can you read his name-tag??
ANOTHER "REAL" MARINE!!....

[Ed Palmer]

John Walter Ripley was a United States Marine Corps officer who received the Navy Cross for his actions in combat during the Vietnam War. On Easter morning 1972,

[ecfree]

I can't make out his name,but I can see U.S.Marines on his tiger stripes.....That cover is not Marine Corps....
WHATS UP.....

[DocGreek]

....ONE OF 3/3/3's FINEST...Col. John Ripley. He was the last Marine to leave Quang Tri Province. and blew up the ONLY bridge that the N.V.A. could use...to get their tanks South. Received The Navy Cross for his Gallantry....another tough S.O.B.!!..

[ecfree]

God bless him for his actions during his tour in Nam...
In that case,he can wear any kind of cover he wants....
One of Chesty's kind.....

May I say OOOOPS.....