Just found out about this site Friday and immediately registered. As you can tell from my screen name I have a kid marching with Teal Sound this year (she's the little contra player).
I'm sorry I couldn't post before the thread in the World Class forum was locked, but I'm writing to express my gratitude to all those whose tremendous outporing of support for Teal following their theft helped keep them on track. We were quite concerned about the incident, especially since some of the kids had personal items stolen from their gym during pre-tour camp.
We spoke with our daughter Thursday night and were astonished to learn that contributions from the DCI community had already made up for the loss of their money. Such support and concern from strangers (not really, just friends who haven't met yet) was amazing!
We hope to make the Jacksonville, AL, show next week, and will travel to Bloomington to pick up our daughter and hustle her over to Columbus where she will register for Ohio State University. And yes, she's trying out for TBDBITL as well. Maybe in four years she'll "Dot the I".
Again, much thanks to those who rose to the occasion to assist Teal in their time of need.
Teal Contra Dad