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School: Sorry About Hammer & Sickle (HS Marching Band Commemorates Communist Revolution)
Fox News ^ | 9/25/2012 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/25/2012 5:26:24 PM PDT by Dallas59



A Pennsylvania school district has apologized and made significant changes to a high school marching band’s halftime show that commemorated the Russian Revolution with red flags, military-style outfits and giant hammers and sickles.

The New Oxford High School Marching band’s show will no longer be called “St. Petersburg: 1917″ and the performance will no longer include the hammers and sickles, according to a statement from Rebecca Harbaugh, the superintendent for the Conewago Valley School District.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1917; apology; communism; freakinidiots; highschool; leftismoncampus; newoxford; pa; stpetersburg
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To: Dallas59

Oh come on, they were just celebrating the memorable great music of the Communist Revolution. I mean, even Time-Life put out a series of albums, Music of the Russian Revolution. Don’t you remember? I have volumes 1-22 myself.

Okay, seriously, the Soviets made Prokofiev apologise for his music. What an awesome thing to celebrate, not.


41 posted on 09/26/2012 12:24:00 AM PDT by UltraV
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To: Dallas59

I hope that there aren’t too many members of the radical right in Pennsylvania with paintball guns, and I really really hope that there isn’t a sudden run on the stores in Pennsylvania clearing the shelves of all paintballs in the color red. Especially when I think about how hard those union members work everyday, to keep that school looking clean and those band buses looking shiny. ;^)


42 posted on 09/26/2012 12:45:36 AM PDT by Tuanedge
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To: IncPen

one thos articles that have you scratching your head- and thinking WTF


43 posted on 09/26/2012 12:51:34 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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Update:

Parents object to characterization of band show as 'communist'

44 posted on 09/26/2012 7:49:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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http://conservativehideout.com/2012/09/25/new-oxford-high-school-marching-band-marches-with-hammer-and-sickle/

But the school’s superintendent Rebecca Harbaugh insists the performance was “not an endorsement of communism.” According to the school official it was a “representation of the time period in history called St. Petersburg 1917,“ and she is ”very sorry“ it was interpreted as anything other than a ”history lesson.

45 posted on 09/26/2012 10:10:59 PM PDT by cyn
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To: DesertRhino

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

That was amazing and I was crying by the end :-) It must have been immensely powerful to see in person and what a tragedy that it won’t ever happen again.....

Again, thank you so much for sharing the link!


46 posted on 09/27/2012 4:20:54 AM PDT by Tamzee (The U.S. re-electing Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceberg again.)
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