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Choctawhatchee High School winterguard 2013 - Fenestra

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Park Vista High School 

Elite A 

The Price of Fame

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Claudia Taylor Johnson High School winterguard 2014

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Spirit of Atlanta Winter Guard at Pope High School

Feb. 15, 2014

(photo credit goes to Mike Morris)

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Centerville High School winterguard 2010 - Vive La Reine Tombé

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La Mirada HS

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Chino Scholastic World Guard Favorite SW Groups (3/3)

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Warren Central Scholastic World Guard Favorite SW Groups (2/3)

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Choctawhatchee Scholastic World Guard Favorite SW Groups (1/3)

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when i become color guard god….i will join these people

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Aimachi 2009: Beloved

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Aimachi^^ 2012 Their performance was incredible <3 ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

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Aimachi 2012: Hana

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Santa Clara Vanguard Winterguard 2012: “John Henry: A Story For Our Time”

They say that when John Henry was born that all the animals came out to see him.

They say that lions and bears, birds and crocodiles come to see this loud, large, laughing baby.

There are even some folks who say a Unicorn come down from the mountain to see what all the fuss was about!

At one day old, John Henry had eyes as bright as stars and a laugh as large as a dream…..and in his eyes we can see the promise of the world!

See the hope in this world!

See the life in this world!

See the joy in this world!

They say he jumped off his mama’s lap…jumped up on that Unicorn and rode it all ‘round the yard, causing a big ol’ commotion.

That boy was somethin’ …built his mama a front porch when he was only 9 years old…and I heard tell that he would grow out of his britches every day! His mama would make him a new pair in the mornin’ and he be done bust out of ‘em by nightfall…

On those warm evenings John Henry’s mama would sit on the porch…holding her baby boy in her arms…hoping all things wonderful, (love) but fearful of a world with so much pain.

Now I expect everyone has heard about John Henry’s hammers…it was his daddy who gave him them two twenty pound hammers.

Said, you have to have something….something in your hands to make your way thru this world…and it wasn’t long after that ol’ John went out to be a part of that world…and by then he was a big ol’ strong man-child, with muscles as large as hope and a laugh as big as thunder.

His daddy gave him hammers, but, his mama gave him hope

As she fixed him a plate of food to take with ‘em  down the road, she said “Baby Boy, the world can be a hard place , stick with what you know is right..Don’t you ever give up!…son, you don’t give up!

So,as John Henry travelled he remembered his mother’s words and  tried to do one good thing everyday…one good thing…and the people loved him for it.

Now during that time much the same as now…many men were out of work across the land….families clutching to dignity while working barren ground…homeless throughout the landscape are hungry as Barons profit from their labor…the world seemed….mean…

They say that when John Henry died that he had those two twenty pound hammers in his hand.

You see John Henry had just raced a machine through a mountain. That mountain was as hard as hurt feelings, but, John Henry had bet the work crews pay on the fact that a man was better than any machine!

…and John Henry beat that machine too…he had them hammers going in such a whirl, all you could see was wind and a rainbow.

But when he got threw that mountain, he just stood there with them hammers in his hands looking up at the sun …and smiling.

Then he fell over dead…never will forget it. Hope, fading away. It was like the whole world stopped to take a breath….they say the birds stopped chirping… and the wind stopped rustling the trees.

Some folks say they saw the moon crying and others swear they saw the sun shed a tear…but, everyone who was there will tell you they all heard that rainbow say;

“Dying ain’t important…everybody does that. What matters, is how you do your living”

The men in the work crew picked up John Henry body..but more important they picked up them hammers…and kept swinging…they would not give up…not ever!

Though you may disappear, you will not be forgotten here and I will say to you…I will do what I can do!

John Henry, we will not forget you in that time or the 14 million in this time who struggle for work…for dignity!

They do not see your road to freedom, that you build with flesh and bone!

They do not see, it is the spirit of man that overcomes the obstacles and challenges of a hard world!

Though you may disappear, you will not be forgotten here and I will say to you…I will do what I can do ….I will do what I can do….

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Braddock Independent: The Passion 2010

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Bluecoats 2011 Colorguard