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Members of the Clarksville High School band traveled to the nation’s capital last week, taking their instruments and stacks of patriotic sheet music with them.

The 60 young musicians provided a free mini-concert in front of the nation’s World War II memorial Thursday morning, playing the national anthem, “Veterans’ Salute,” “America the Beautiful” and “The Washington Post March.”

Thirteen chaperones from Johnson County and curious tourists from around the country enjoyed the performance on a drizzly, unseasonably cool spring day.

The band members visited the National Air and Space Museum and stopped at the National Archives, where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are permanently on display. The students walked past the White House and toured the U.S. Capitol too.

Band director Ralph Brody, who helped raise the money, teach the music and arrange the trip, was unable to make the trip because of a last-minute ailment.

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