It’s easy to poke fun at military bands. Like shooting fish in a bugle. Given the Pentagon’s tightening budgets, they make for a tempting target. But then you come across a newspaper story like this, detailing a short concert by a five-piece U.S. Navy brass band at a Freetown, Sierra Leone, school earlier this week.
The Principal of the Milton Margai School for the Blind Albert J. Sandy said that the session served as a great improvement for the children of the school….Officers of the U.S Navy played entertaining, but educative songs with their first class musical instruments, most of which comprised of trumpets.
U.S. Navy's Five Star Brass Band
Blind African kids probably wouldn’t get much out of seeing a mighty U.S. warship at a Freetown dock. But they got a kick out of the music. Principal Sandy “commended the U.S. Naval Officer and the Government of the United States of America for their laudable venture in restoring hope to the depressed, the marginalized and vulnerable groups in our society.”
Grace notes, indeed.