My youngest brother John has a really cool job. In this picture, he's on the far right carrying a flag. John is on the color guard out of Fort Carson, Colorado. Besides keeping up with his regular Army job, he takes care of horses, marches in parades, and competes against other color guard teams. He has always been the grandchild into horses, so this seems like a neat career for him.
Normally, getting information out of my brothers is extremely difficult. They are lockboxes keeping the minutia of their lives very private. But, John told me he was on ESPN carrying the flag and I got the rest from Facebook. For 9-11, his team got to carry the flag on Coors Field before a Rockies game. The team parked the horse trailers and went in near the players entrance.
From the pictures, it looked like a patriotic event that fittingly honored public servants and the military.
Something that just had to bring a bit of humor to the evening was when one of the horses left his mark on Coors Field. I'm quite sure that was quite a mud puddle.
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