President-elect Donald Trump’s second inaugural parade may have a really New York taste.
The New York Army Academy and the NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums might be represented in subsequent week’s festivities honoring the forty seventh president-elect, following their look at Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, The Submit has realized.
The New York Army Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, has a particular tie to the incoming president. Trump graduated from the boarding college in 1964 and was enshrined as an Alumnus of Distinction in 1999.
NYMA has skilled cadets since its founding in 1889, making it one of many oldest army faculty preparatory colleges within the nation. Different outstanding attendees embrace movie director Francis Ford Coppola and the late Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, although neither graduated from the college.
Trump saluted NYMA cadets after they marched previous the reviewing stand in the course of the 2017 inaugural parade, signifying the delight he takes in his alma mater, an inaugural committee spokesperson instructed The Submit Monday.
Trump’s father Fred despatched the younger Donald away to the college when the boy was simply 13 years outdated. Accounts of Trump’s time on the academy describe him as being initially rowdy, however quickly studying self-discipline and succeeding because of his aggressive nature.
“These cadets are carrying the identical uniforms, following the identical day by day routine, and can in the end graduate from the identical army academy as a twice-elected President of the USA. It exhibits them what’s potential with the proper focus and energy,” mentioned retired US Military Sgt. Maj. Mike Lavigne, director of cadet life at NYMA.
“We’re thrilled to have the ability to render honors to a commander-in-chief who’s additionally a proud graduate of our college,” added NYMA Headmaster Sunny Doman.
“This can be a historic event — we’ll march previous with our cadets and a detachment of alumni, together with a couple of of President Trump’s classmates from 1964. Our cadets and oldsters are proud we’re collaborating.”
The NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums are additionally returning for an inaugural parade encore.
The 100-strong ensemble, comprised of lively and retired NYPD officers with Irish ancestry, was the primary police pipe band shaped within the US in 1960.
The band has carried out throughout the nation and around the globe — entertaining audiences from hospitalized youngsters to Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
Practically 40 organizations will participate within the parade, chosen from an inventory of greater than 100 that utilized, the inaugural committee spokesperson mentioned.
The parade from the Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White Home will step off at 2:30 p.m. and have the 78-year-old Trump himself along with the 2 Empire State establishments.