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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Middletown, Ohio – 14 January 2025
1. Various of bass drummer Carley Tindle rehearsing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carley Tindle, Bass Drum Middletown High School Band:
“I didn’t think it was real. I thought it was very, like, fake. I thought he was just like messing with us.”
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3. Various of then US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melanie Trump walking in inauguration parade
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Middletown, Ohio – 14 January 2025
4. Mid of Tindle rehearsing
5. Wide of band director David Leisten and others during rehearsal
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Carley Tindle, Bass Drum Middletown High School Band:
“The fact that we get to play and be in the parade with Ohio State and being able to like, look up to them, too, and just knowing that everybody’s seeing this. It’s such a big thing to just be a part of and enjoy.”
7. Close of students rehearsing
8. Various of student rehearsing outside
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9. STILL of then vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Donald Trump at campaign rally
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Middletown, Ohio – 14 January 2025
10. Close-up of song sheet
11. Mid of Leisten
12. Various of students rehearsing drums
13. SOUNDBITE (English) David Leisten, Middletown High School Band Director:
“Any time we’re playing, we’re getting better. So, you know, it, this has been an opportunity to, to grow as musicians and as performers.”
14. Various of students rehearsing outside
15. SOUNDBITE (English) David Leisten, Middletown High School Band Director:
“I’m really excited, you know, for the kids to see Washington, D.C., be a part of this experience.”
16. Various of Leslie Hernandez rehearsing with classmates
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Leslie Hernandez, Middletown High School:
“I think it’s, like, such a really fun and grateful opportunity that not a lot of people get to experience ever and it’s really fun that Middletown, like, students get to go.”
18. Various of students rehearsing outside
STORYLINE:
At Middletown High School, Vice President-elect JD Vance’s alma mater, the energy level is high in the days before the Presidential Inauguration.
At the former Ohio senator’s invitation, the band is scheduled to march in Monday’s inaugural parade. They leave at 6 a.m. Sunday.
“I didn’t think it was real,” sophomore drum bass player Carley Tindle said when she first heard the news that the Middies would be marching in the parade.
The Middletown City School District raised well over the $140,000 needed to underwrite the full cost of the trip for band members, color guard and cheerleaders attending, said spokesperson Dan Wohler. He said enough was left over to buy a banner for the parade, t-shirts and other souvenir items.
Besides city and state grants, the total included money raised through a GoFundMe launched by Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, who’s positioning for a gubernatorial run next year; and a $10,000 donation from the campaign fund of Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
“From the district’s standpoint, it’s pretty exciting to say that a graduate of the high school is going to be the next vice president of the United States," Wohler said. "That’s pretty historic.”
The students will depart Middletown for Washington Sunday morning and return after tours of museums in the nation’s capital.
AP Video by Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos
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