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Uploaded by on Jan 22, 2009

The US Army's Colonial fife and drum corps march during Obama's Inaugural Parade

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  • metalgear55 Shut up. You are ignorant and a complete moron. Did you know that the moors enslaved one million christian??? or that most of the slaves went to south america and to african countries only a small percent went to America. So wanker get your head out of your ass and start thinking.

  • The European custom in the 18th century was to signify a musician's status as a signaler and non combatant by reversing the colors of the coat of the regiment to which they were assigned. Hence the reason why the coats are red with blue facings. Also, the color of the facings in the American army signified which part of the colonies soldiers were from.

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  • @Deidara188

    Neither... American Revolution, during the 18th Century, War was more about respect and tradition, and if you see someone holding a drum instead of a Musket, you obviously don't want to shoot him so to counter that they switched the colors around, in this case the colors for the Continental Army of the Middle Colonies were overall blue and red trimmings yet they switched it around for the musicians and it so happened to look British

  • omg it was so cold out there!

  • @Panzergredi kicking the arses of the nazis, panzerprick.

  • @Metalgear55 I didn't take shit so I don't owe shit.

  • @EpicTrollBeastMan

    Where are the Britons?

  • Making the Brits look stupid since 1776!

  • @GermBritScotsIrish15 angry cracker, calm down

  • man thats how it should be thats where we came from

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