Waldo Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 (edited) I wanted to share an amazing experience I witnessed at The Rose Bowl saturday night. I am a volunteer with The Boston Crusaders and had the fantastic privledge to go onto the field with my corps. at retreat. AWESOME! But thats not the story... Another volunteer and I decided to leave the field just before America/O Canada as to avoid the mass exodus of the corps retreating, so we headed out the backfield tunnel. Way up at the start of the tunnel I could see two figures slowly making their way into the tunnel towards the field. As we got a bit closer i could see that one of them was limping very badly. After they made it about a third of the way into the tunnel the person helping the limping one turned and ran out of the tunnel and the limping person made it very unsteadily to the wall, she was obviously in tremendous pain. My friend and I ran over and to her and asked if she needed any help and if her escort was returning. She said " Yes, he went to get my Horn". The girl was a Blue Devil and, by the beautiful flower pinned to her chest, an age-out. Tears were streaming down her face and she turned to us and asked "Did I miss It?....what was the score?".. My heart broke.. I said to her "BD achieved a 98.0" and added as I brushed the tears from her cheek "Congratulations, You are a champion." She burst into tears. A moment later her friend returned with her horn and her shako and started to make their way slowly towards the field. I watched them go. Her hero was wearing a member jacket from the Mandarins.The image was beautiful and awe inspiring. A wonderful friend helping a badly injured champion to the field, the corps and the crowd as their backdrop. I can only hope she made it onfield in time to play the anthem and BD's much deserved encore. This is what i will take away from another wonderful season of drum corps. CHEERS! Edited August 13, 2007 by Waldo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jami Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 wow - that just brought tears to my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 wow - that just brought tears to my eyes. It did me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachariaswmb Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Chalk up another teary-eyed DCP member. Wow, that's amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Waldo Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Chalk up another teary-eyed DCP member. Wow, that's amazing. Experiences like this make all the hard work, summer heat, lack of sleep, etc. seem very insignificant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marimbadude84 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 (edited) Add one more tearie eye to that post. What an amazing story and the true meaning of drum corps, people binding together to share their love and passion for music and one another! Edited August 13, 2007 by marimbadude84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guizeppe Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Painfully beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCC99Man Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 she was my seat partner and one of my best friends on tour. she had been having knee problems since before finals week, and had injured it badly during our finals show and pretty much collapsed after we got off the field. she got back on the field during retreat and then preceded to throw down one hell of an encore, showing the true champion she is :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOSMarcher Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Great story! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScribeToo Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 great story.. I hope I typed that correctly as I can't really see through all this crap I got in my eye all of a sudden.. Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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