Service members play instruments.

(Red Grandy/Stars and Stripes)

Luxembourg, April 9, 1953: Of the 100,000 people who turned out in the rain to watch the wedding parade of Prince Jean of Luxembourg and Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium, these three may have had the best and driest vantage point on the route … as long as the band stayed away from foot-stomping music.

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