IL, Dwight parade "the Missing man march"
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IL, Dwight parade "the Missing man march"
“THE MISSING MAN MARCH” i.e. “Finding REMO”
What a day this was..
Everything started out good, then I got out of bed J
First I’ll start with the weather.. Crappy with 100% chance of rain.
Told everyone I would be there by 10:00 I don’t think I left the house till 10:00
This was my first coordinated event(except for the movie night, but to me it was one big event)
The guy who was running the whole “Harvest days” was a little over his head..
Very nice guy, but this was his first time doing this and wanted to do it all himself…he needed some help..
But, that’s another story
Anyway, he didn’t have a lot of information to give me, most of it was guess work.
Said we could start at the school and change at the school…we get to school. And they wont let us in.
Anyway, they send us to the church. We get dressed in parking lot…
Then send us to the baseball field. And there we waited and waited….
Finally we get ready to go and then it “Rained on my Parade”
And rained hard!
We start moving and I looked down the road, the group ahead of us was almost gone, they were moving fast
So we moved fast.. I was passing out “Force Mallows” (special thank you to TK118) and when I looked up, I was in the band behind us…
They told us to hand out the candy…::LOL:: yeah right..that lasted maybe 10seconds.. I was throwing them all the way to the houses
One time when I was passing out the candy and I looked up, everyone was GONE.. I missed the turn..DOH!
Then my boot fell apart…arg..
Then we lost REMO!
When we got to the end, the parade was supposed to go in a circle, we were at a different school.. Crap! Now what.
Lucky we seen the church steeple behind the CORN FIELD…we found a trail around it…and were done.
Honestly, at first I was pretty upset, about the rain and no info…until, I started talking to everyone…
WOW! What a great bunch of TROOPERS. Man, you guys are great!
All of em had smiles and said they still had fun..made me feel pretty darn good afterward.
Then we had a nice little game of “FINDING REMO” !
I got to talk to some of the people that watched the parade…they said we made it worth it. Waiting in the rain.
And “best part of the parade”
Now that its over….I am sitting thinking about it…I had FUN! I don’t know how…But I did.
Rain and all.
Thank you to all the Troopers! You really made a crappy day into something wonderful!
Special Thank you to REMO, for giving the parade a very COOL name
“THE Missing Man March!”
Lets do it again……DOH!
Thank you to everyone who brought the goodies to pass out!
and all the Troopers.. if I missed anyone or got it wrong let me know.
TK 2429 Ryan Summers- Stormtrooper (with pauldron)
TD 7664 Sean P Baumgartner (shadow Trooper)
TI 1719 Jason Patterson (Darth Vader)
TI 3853 Jim M DeJan (Imperial Crewman, pilot of Skull one)
TI 1802 Emily G DeJan (co-pilot of Skull one)
TB 0101 Aimee Jorgensen (Biker Scout)
ID 3052 Steven Szyndrowski (Imperial Officer)
SL 3697 Patrick Q Higgins (Shadow Trooper)
TK 6442 John E Fitzsimmons (Stormtrooper)
TI 7748 Greg Fischer (Imperial Crewman)
TI 3127 Cheryl L Whitaker (Biker Scout) (rebel in disguise)
TB 9442 Chris T Schwarz (Imperial crewman)(rebel in disguise)
CC 3166 Joe M Rivera (Captain Rex--is Rex RL or 501st?)
---- (Thank you River for wearing REX at my request.)
TI 1659 Michael J Riemma (Missing Tie pilot)
TK 4013 Morgan R Easley (needs DB update) (Boba Fett)
The awesome Rebels!
TK 1951 Phyllis J Schulte (Rebel Fleet Trooper)
------ Thank you for providing the “Medical Frigate)
TI 2079 Andrew E Marsh (Rebel Pilot)
Crix (Rebel Pilot) and "Shadow 13.5" my son Luke
Nerftheherder (Rebel Pilot)
Special Guest Appearance by: Kyle Dorothy
What a day this was..
Everything started out good, then I got out of bed J
First I’ll start with the weather.. Crappy with 100% chance of rain.
Told everyone I would be there by 10:00 I don’t think I left the house till 10:00
This was my first coordinated event(except for the movie night, but to me it was one big event)
The guy who was running the whole “Harvest days” was a little over his head..
Very nice guy, but this was his first time doing this and wanted to do it all himself…he needed some help..
But, that’s another story
Anyway, he didn’t have a lot of information to give me, most of it was guess work.
Said we could start at the school and change at the school…we get to school. And they wont let us in.
Anyway, they send us to the church. We get dressed in parking lot…
Then send us to the baseball field. And there we waited and waited….
Finally we get ready to go and then it “Rained on my Parade”
And rained hard!
We start moving and I looked down the road, the group ahead of us was almost gone, they were moving fast
So we moved fast.. I was passing out “Force Mallows” (special thank you to TK118) and when I looked up, I was in the band behind us…
They told us to hand out the candy…::LOL:: yeah right..that lasted maybe 10seconds.. I was throwing them all the way to the houses
One time when I was passing out the candy and I looked up, everyone was GONE.. I missed the turn..DOH!
Then my boot fell apart…arg..
Then we lost REMO!
When we got to the end, the parade was supposed to go in a circle, we were at a different school.. Crap! Now what.
Lucky we seen the church steeple behind the CORN FIELD…we found a trail around it…and were done.
Honestly, at first I was pretty upset, about the rain and no info…until, I started talking to everyone…
WOW! What a great bunch of TROOPERS. Man, you guys are great!
All of em had smiles and said they still had fun..made me feel pretty darn good afterward.
Then we had a nice little game of “FINDING REMO” !
I got to talk to some of the people that watched the parade…they said we made it worth it. Waiting in the rain.
And “best part of the parade”
Now that its over….I am sitting thinking about it…I had FUN! I don’t know how…But I did.
Rain and all.
Thank you to all the Troopers! You really made a crappy day into something wonderful!
Special Thank you to REMO, for giving the parade a very COOL name
“THE Missing Man March!”
Lets do it again……DOH!
Thank you to everyone who brought the goodies to pass out!
and all the Troopers.. if I missed anyone or got it wrong let me know.
TK 2429 Ryan Summers- Stormtrooper (with pauldron)
TD 7664 Sean P Baumgartner (shadow Trooper)
TI 1719 Jason Patterson (Darth Vader)
TI 3853 Jim M DeJan (Imperial Crewman, pilot of Skull one)
TI 1802 Emily G DeJan (co-pilot of Skull one)
TB 0101 Aimee Jorgensen (Biker Scout)
ID 3052 Steven Szyndrowski (Imperial Officer)
SL 3697 Patrick Q Higgins (Shadow Trooper)
TK 6442 John E Fitzsimmons (Stormtrooper)
TI 7748 Greg Fischer (Imperial Crewman)
TI 3127 Cheryl L Whitaker (Biker Scout) (rebel in disguise)
TB 9442 Chris T Schwarz (Imperial crewman)(rebel in disguise)
CC 3166 Joe M Rivera (Captain Rex--is Rex RL or 501st?)
---- (Thank you River for wearing REX at my request.)
TI 1659 Michael J Riemma (Missing Tie pilot)
TK 4013 Morgan R Easley (needs DB update) (Boba Fett)
The awesome Rebels!
TK 1951 Phyllis J Schulte (Rebel Fleet Trooper)
------ Thank you for providing the “Medical Frigate)
TI 2079 Andrew E Marsh (Rebel Pilot)
Crix (Rebel Pilot) and "Shadow 13.5" my son Luke
Nerftheherder (Rebel Pilot)
Special Guest Appearance by: Kyle Dorothy
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Great report
I wish I could have been there.
You did a great job in the face of adversity.
Your son is one cool cat in that pilot costume!
Scott
You did a great job in the face of adversity.
Your son is one cool cat in that pilot costume!
Scott
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Re: Great report
wooshprez wrote:I wish I could have been there.
You did a great job in the face of adversity.
Your son is one cool cat in that pilot costume!
Scott
thank you! my son had a blast!
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