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I love high school football.
I can still remember that Friday afternoon calling up my new friend Mike and asking about the ROTC ushering. I figured it was too late for this week, but I could start taking the steps for next week.
Instead Mike said, hey, we’ll pick you up about 6:20. It was 4 of us in total, plus Mike’s Mom who picked us all up and drove us to the high school.
Besides the ROTC, the football game had the band, cheerleaders, and drill team. It was quite the production. It had families with younger kids. But … not too many high school kids themselves unconnected with the production.
Often, there was a dance after home games.
Technically this was Junior ROTC, or JROTC, but we just called it ROTC.
PS This was way back in 1977. Yes, I’ve lived that many years!
I can still remember that Friday afternoon calling up my new friend Mike and asking about the ROTC ushering. I figured it was too late for this week, but I could start taking the steps for next week.
Instead Mike said, hey, we’ll pick you up about 6:20. It was 4 of us in total, plus Mike’s Mom who picked us all up and drove us to the high school.
Besides the ROTC, the football game had the band, cheerleaders, and drill team. It was quite the production. It had families with younger kids. But … not too many high school kids themselves unconnected with the production.
Often, there was a dance after home games.
Technically this was Junior ROTC, or JROTC, but we just called it ROTC.
PS This was way back in 1977. Yes, I’ve lived that many years!
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