This is the time of year, we would discuss your strategies for UIL concert & sightreading. The 630am practices and after school sectionals. Don't forget jazz band rehearsal. Coming home at 9pm, with Momma yelling because it's so late. Then you get Division I at UIL and nobody complains then. We would talk about the NCAA brackets and whom the Rockets could draft to win another title. We would also talk about going fishing though we would never go. Then we would squeeze in a Rocket or Astro game. You always made time for us and not yourself. I understood your methods but others questioned until you would come home with the trophies. Year after year, without regard for personal health, you pushed the limits and we loved you for it, even though at times, you were physically hurting yourself. I know that you would not change a thing, but we would have loved to see you do it again. Now, it's our turn to step up and take the challenge of playing Maze, The Jacksons, and Gap Band in the fall and Claude T. Smith, John Phillip Sousa, Sammy Nestico, Basie, and Ellington in the spring. It's our turn to give all that we have to give, then give 200% more, because that's the way you have done it for years. Dad, here are your flowers, this is your birthday, and yes I'm sad that the band continues to look at your music that has a fermata over a rest, but it is time to pick it up at the anacrusis, go past the caesura, and recapitulate our exposition.
Happy birthday, LEGEND!
Happy birthday, DAD!
Till we meet again,
Son of a legend
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2 hang in there doc...
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Happy birthday, Mr. Thornton!!! We'll try to make you proud...
Happy birthday, Dad! Number 64. Umm, 64, great number for drill writing!
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