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Somerset Celebrates the Fourth with 1st All-Girl Color Guard
The Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase may be small, but it stays true to its patriotic spirit with an annual July Fourth celebration that includes the reading—in full—of the Declaration of Independence.
For the first time in history, the Town of Somerset's annual Fourth of July celebration featured an all-girl color guard on July 4, 2013.
Green-sashed members of Somerset's Girl Scout troop (accompanied by one tiny blue-smocked Daisy) marched the flags up to the podium for Somerset's Independence Day ceremony, and stood guard by the flags for the National Anthem, Somerset's anthem (written by Somerset Councilwoman Cathy Pickar), and the reading (by several Somerset youth, taking turns) of the Declaration of Independence.
Montgomery County Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (D-At Large), who attended the ceremony, remarked that it was the fourth Fourth of July ceremony she had been to that day, but the first one at which the Declaration of Independence was read out—in full, Jeffersonian vocabulary and all. (The kids read every word.)
The first all-girl color guard coincides with Somerset's first all-female council, which came into being about a year ago. It's also Montgomery County's first all-female municipal council, Patch reported.
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