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When looking for heroes in drum corps, it’s easy to focus your attention on the names you know – the great designers, instructors and administrators who have impressive resumes and many honors and accolades next to their names. To be sure, they are vitally important to the activity. It’s also easy to pigeon-hole achievement as something awarded only by a judge and having the highest score on the sheet. However, the real heroes in drum corps are the rank-and-file members who push themselves to excel at things they never thought possible and who pour their souls into entertaining audiences, in the process, forging strong family bonds and learning important life lessons. Achievement comes in many forms, some individual, some collective, but when drum corps is done right, every corps achieves great things every year, simply by having made the journey. The 128 members of the Reading Buccaneers are our true heroes, and a small piece of metal says more about them than anything else could.

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