This marked the 5th straight year my daughter and I marched Brass. As always for me the best day of the season is the last day. The emotions of never being with this group of your friends again, the last performance together, last run through as a group. Everything about the last day is what makes it so wonderful.
But to win a championship with my daughter is something that I will always remember. We have a special bond of music and drum corps, others in my family do not understand. My son and I have hockey and auto racing, the wife and I go to movies and casinos. But to have a passion and to share it makes everything we do worth the long days, rain, practice, heat, did I say rain. I was not just with my daughter. I had my other kids, my guard daughters and sons, my trumpet section family and 120 other close friends, to me they are all family and that is what made this year so very special for me.
Buy the way, our first outdoor rehearsal of the season was in sleet and rain, so it was fitting that we ended the last day of our season in the rain.