Edward Coste:  

One of the brightest memories of my youth was during my years at Dorchester High... class of '59... Back then, the boys of DOT practiced and performed military drill every Thursday afternoon in preparation for the School Boys Parade which every Boston public school participated in with no exception for a series of positional awards. This had been an annual event since somewhere back in the 1940's... the last year that DOT won first prize in the SBP was in 1948... up to 1959 that is.. One day the word got out that our drum and bugle core needed several new members, so volunteers were being solicited. This sparked my interest as I was fond of so many kinds of music and being quite apt at playing trumpet since 5th grade, it seemed quite appropriate that I try out using this acquired but not perfected talent. All went well and I was doing just fine as a high school bugle boy for a couple of years or so. Eventually, we all became good buds... even my brother Ron joined our Corps. which really made me happy. Eventually, my best friend Tom became the captain (as he didn't play too well anyway). So there we were in all our glory, we just didn't feel so glorious as we began to read the rules and regs for th...Expand for more