On cue, the sounds of the fife-and-drum corps filled the hall with Colonial-era music.

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The brick building was decked in patriotic bunting, and a fife-and-drum corps led Romney inside.

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There was a drum corps rattling away at the stadium entrance, and inside, free T-shirts and black-and-white cookies with HELLO PLAYOFFS scribbled in frosting.

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It is easier to dress soldiers in bright uniforms and have them march to the sound of a fife-and-drum corps than it is to have them ride six hundred miles through the desert on the back of a camel.

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