“This past year we performed some 16 performances and we have expanded our community services to include color guard and bugle calls as was done at Stanford University, Memorial Day, Port Chicago, U.S. Navy Seals, and for Congresswoman Speiers’ Military Academy Night,” Cogan said. “The biggest highlight of 2015 was our summer training to Washington, D.C., where we had 50 cadets apply, 22 auditioned, and seven accepted to perform with this band for performances at the U.S. Navy Memorial, National World War II Memorial, and the Armed Forces Retirement Home, This event provided a wonderful training environment with the U.S. Naval Academy Band and the U.S. Navy Band, which was so impressed that they invited us to attend and official Welcoming Ceremony with Admiral Jonathan Greenert who presented everyone his challenge coin.”.

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Yes, Jobs has done amazing things — bringing Apple back from the dead and building it into the world’s most valuable technology company has to count as the business world’s most successful comeback ever, for one. But think about what Wozniak has done, often much more quietly. Wozniak put up early money for the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose, eventually contributing millions, he says in his autobiography, “iWoz.” He donated seed money for the Tech Museum of Innovation, and he provided early contributions for the Cleveland San Jose Ballet (now Ballet San Jose).