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Forty-six members of the Colony High School marching band are getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform in the Jan. 20 Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington D.C. The band is the only active high school marching band in the state, and the invitation to represent Alaska coincides with the 50th anniversary of statehood. A few band members agreed to share their experiences with the Daily News as part of their trip.

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Zach Hoyt

My name is Zach Hoyt and I am a 17 year old senior in the Colony High School Marching Band. I have been in the band since our previous trip to DC for the 4th of July Parade in 2006 as a banner-carrier and am now one of the cymbal players on the drumline.

Gayle Hoyt

My name is Gayle Hoyt. I am a senior, and I have been a member of the marching band since my freshman year, when it was started. I play the alto saxophone.

Breanna Romeo

I'm Breanna Romeo, my nickname is Bree, that's usually what I go by. I'm a Senior and I'm 18. I have been in Marching Band for 4 years, and band in general since 5th grade. I play the flute usually, but for marching band I play the piccolo.

Clayton Powell

Clayton Powell is serving as one of the adult chaperones on the trip. He is a Master Sgt. in the US Air Force stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base with the 3rd maintenance operations squadron. He has two children in band. Donte, 16, a senior, who is going to be holding the band banner during the parade and Oreanna, 15, a sophomore, who is going to be a color guard member.

The day before: Monuments and museums

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Posted: January 20, 2009 - 12:46 am

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By Breanna Romeo

Today was a very eventful day.

It started out at the Washington Monument which was incredible, I've seen it before but I have never actually been close to it.

The Washington Monument

Then my group went the the WWII memorial and got pictures taken around the Alaska sign.

WWII memorial

We were going to go into the Lincoln Memorial but it was closed because Obama was there either earlier in the day, or was going to be there soon.

After the Monuments we went to the Holocaust Museum. This was my second time seeing it because I saw it on my first trip to D.C. with the marching band my sophmore year summer. Its very moving, way better then a history class, and you learn a lot more because you go through a lot of emotions walking through the entire Museum.

Next my group went to the American History Museum. We had to stand in line for a little while because the museum was too full and they had to wait for people to leave. While standing in line we met "Abraham Lincoln." It was pretty funny.

Also on the way to the museum a guy found out that we were from Alaska and asked to have one of us sign his hat because he was trying to get a person from every state to sign it. So I decided I would.

We all had to be back at the bus at 6 p.m., but there was a huge accident which delayed our bus so we all decided while we were waiting to start singing songs which was pretty entertaining for a while.

After that was dinner at a buffet, and now we are back at the hotel and about to go to sleep so we can be rested for our huge day tomorrow.

I'm very excited and can not wait to be part of this once in a life time memory.

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