MUCH ADO ABOUT REALLY NOTHING
It’s hard to believe that a band in which the men dress up in skirts takes itself so seriously that a nod and a wave have become an internet storm.
(CNN) — An Ohio man who was suspended as the drum major of a band for giving President Obama a nod during last week’s inaugural parade is calling it quits.
John Coleman quit his band after it suspended him for nodding to President Obama last week.John Coleman resigned from the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes & Drums a week after the parade in Washington. Publicity about his suspension had gotten to be too much, he told CNN affiliate WEWS.
Representatives from the group did not return calls from CNN. But bandleader Mike Engle told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Coleman was suspended because he ignored military protocol.
“We had gone over and over time and again with everyone in the band that this was a military parade,” Engle told the newspaper. “Protocol and proper decorum had to be followed at all times. Unfortunately, John chose to ignore that.”
Coleman had been suspended from the band for six months.
Military parade. Right.
One Response to “MUCH ADO ABOUT REALLY NOTHING”
![]() Comment by NMcV January 29th, 2009 at 5:16 pm |
Hey! Let’s not go an an anti-Scot tirade here! Just because your ancestors were too wimpy to wear kilts… |