ENJOYMENT, DISCIPLINE, BELIEF [Freude, Zucht, Glaube]
Handbook for cultural work in camp Edited by Dept, of culture of Reich Youth Leadership [Kulturamt der Reichsjugendfuehrung]
Published by Ludwig Voggenreiter publishing house, Potsdam. Copyright 1937, Pages 63-179.
A Flag Parade
The detail has assembled. The leader on duty announces it to the camp leader.
"Heil Hitler, camp detail!"
"Heil Hitler!"
The leader on duty gives the parole for the day.
"Eyes front! The parole for today is: Herbert Norkus!"
A boy says: -"We don't mourn at cold caskets,
We step up and say: there was one Who dared that what we all dare.
His mouth is silent. We step up and say:
The comradeship is immutable.
"Many die. Many are born.
The world is large which encloses them.
The word, however, which we have sworn to,
The word is not lost even to the dead;
That means: the duty is greater than the world.
"The duty to remember what has been Before we were. Because we will be What others, while we rot in the grave, Find worthwhile reading from our life. That is more powerful than ore and stone!"
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The camp leader speaks for the fallen comrade:
"On 24 January 1931 at Beuszelkietz in Berlin our 15-year old comrade Herbert Norkus was slain by communists. As Hitler youth he had done nothing but his duty, and just that caused the hatred of the community. We know that for the sake of our dead comrade there will never be an understanding between Bolshevism and us!"
The leader on duty:
"Attention! We sing while raising the flag: A young nation is rising, ready to storm .... first verse. Ready to raise the flag . . . Eyes right! Raise the flag!"
At the command the first verse of the announced song is completely sung.
The leader on duty: "Eyes front!" "At ease!" The leaders of the individual camp units give at once the command for marching off.
Samples of suitable paroles for the day.
Arminius — Geiserich — Teja — Widukind — Heinrich I =— Heinrich the Lion — Braunschweig — Franz Yon Sickingen — Ulrich Von Hutten — Lutzen — Friedericus — Ziethen — Seydlitz — Leuthen — Rossbach — Prince Louis Ferdinand — Theodor Koer-ner — Scharnhorst — Gneisenau — Blucher — Waterloo — Lan-gemarck — Verdun — Douaumont — Ypern —- The Dead Man — Loretto Hohe — Immelmann — Boelcke — Richthofen — 9th of November — Feldherrnhalle — Herbert Norkus — Nürnberg.
It is understood that the leader is well informed about the historical personality or the event on which the parole for the day is based. The explanation which he makes at the flag parade should comprise in two or at most three sentences all essential points.
Flag Mottos
He who ioves his nation proves it only by the sacrifices which he is ready to make for if. Adolf Hitler
Thou art the most beautiful of all which waved for us, ' Thou art the power which recruits every fighter,
Thou even sanctifiest the sinner who dies for thee, "
Thou high hand with which the heroes pray.
Fervor and will thou art of us all. .
Who fell for thee a symbol he becomes of thee.
Thou art the bridge between there and here.
Hail to those who fall in thy shadow.
' ' Baldur von Schirach
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Look at the banner! Listen to the signal! From graves, crowning pain and wound Grows the new era.
Who heroically dedicates himself to death Is of our alliance.
Before, brown columns the flag flies, Conquering the night and need.
Anacker
Yes, the flag means more than death.
Baldur von Schirach
He who swears by the Prussian flag.
Does not have any more private property.
. Flex
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He who wants to live should also fight, and he who does not want to fight in this world of perpetual battle, does not deserve to live.
Adolf Hitler
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The Sunday Morning Celebration
We have to explain the conception and idea of the morning celebration before we Speak of its form and execution.
If the daily raising of the flag comprises the requirements for the day in a motto or song, the Sunday morning celebration has a higher meaning. It is a confession to the highest known to the German, but also it is a challenge for action. It gives expression to the soul and feeling of the younger nation which sees its realization in everyday life in the work for Germany, for the leader, for the party and the people. The morning celebration should not bother with current political questions and requirements, but should strengthen the belief in the nation and the leader and should, beyond an only passing sentiment and all good principles of the moment, influence' everyday life. It does not bring any discussions or arguments * about confessional points of view, but wants to strengthen life and men through the absolute conviction in the might of God and the ideology of the leader and his party, and strengthen them for the completion of great and small tasks.
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The form of the morning celebration will be according to its basic laws. It will always contain ideas which are of considerable importance for the life of the individual in the community and therefore for the community itself. It will not center around general phrases, nor slogans or ideas alone of our ideology, but around thoughts about our daily life and its big and small requirements. Therefore we generally avoid thoughts like "comradeship," "Germany," "Blood and Soil," "Community," "Flag," "Fire" * * *, these greatest ideas remain reserved for certain occasions.
We quote a few fundamental ideas for titles and themes for the Sunday morning celebration whereby these words in an enlarged form should at the same time be the highlight of the celebration and form the text for the address:
He who wants to live should also fight!
To be more than to appear to be.
God is mighty in all powerful men.
Only he who has learnt to obey, can later command.
It is the power of the mind which wins victories.
He who loves his nation, proves it only through sacrifice.
The quotation of these themes does not exclude, of course, that at these morning celebrations great personalities as models, special historical event of the fatherland are being remembered— everything in its time. We repeat over again: this celebration does not have a general festive character, but has the task of shaping and strengthening the soul, that means, really the inner war training [Wehrhaftmachung]. It is possible, therefore, to give clear and straight directions for such a morning celebration so that its execution is possible in every camp and for each unit.
We now come to the shaping and performance. Only in the rarest cases will it be possible and necessary to sing or to speak complete poems, cantatas, or even plays. Most of them are .beyond our possibilities, require long] and careful preparations and also do not always satisfy the demands for concentration on a certain idea. We, therefore, have to arrange such a celebration ourselves. Its center is the text, the address, the theme of which prevails simply and clearly through the whole celebration. If there is nobody to make a short celebration address—it must be thrilling and good—one should read from the "Kampf" or the speeches of the leader, from Rosenberg's works, the works from Fichte, Arndt, Lagarde, and others, or read a short story which embodies thoughtfully and beautifully the ideas of the morning celebration.
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The address or reading is the essence of the morning celebration which, however, can only become effective through a pure arrangement of motto, poem, song, and music.
We have to be especially careful not to slip into the "Pastorale," the intended ceremony, because this is contrary to the purpose of our celebrations.
No results will be accomplished this way, but an atmosphere of ridicule can easily be created.
We remind again and again: The point of the morning celebration is not general talk, but consciousness and means to new power. * * *
Examples of Various Celebrations
We are quoting here three examples of simple evening celebrations, a solstice celebration, a Schlageter memorial celebration, and an hour of our young front.
Bigger celebrations will be arranged according to the creations of our poets. However, it is better in every case to accomplish unobjectionably a very simply arranged celebration, than to offer one of the big cantatas in an incomplete manner. * * *
Solstice
We stand in a rectangle around the pile of wood. The side to which the wind is blowing the smoke and the sparks remains open. At first only one torch is burning.
We sing: "Let the flags wave in the winds" ....
One:
"Nation to nation And flame to flame!
Arise to the sky, holy glow—
Roar on from stem to stem !
H. Gutberlet
At these words we lighten the pile of wood and all torches. Then we are silent while the pile flares up.
One speaks:
Look, the threshold shines Which delivers us from the dark Beyond radiates the brightness Of a glorious, coming time.
The gates of the future are open To him who believes in the future And in faithful hope Today the torch is burning.
Baldur von Schirach
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All sing: "Flame arise."
"A comrade speaks in a few words about the idea of the solstice.
"......Again the fires are glowing from all mountains. We
stand at the high point of the year to look back at work and deed. Many tasks have been accomplished and new ones were given to use by the leader. We go on, toward the great goal
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(By all means do not deliver a school lecture about the idea of the solstice now!) .
Boiling of drums.
"We remember the dead of the war and of the battle of the national socialist movement!"
One minute silence.
One speaks:
The dead, too, stand in our columns.
Him whom you have slain yesterday,
Him we have not carried to the grave,
No!
He whom you have in a dark street Slain cowardly yesterday during the night Has, at the dawn of the day Arisen!
The faces of the dead are today those of hundred thousand men, and they are the jury.
Baldur von Schirach
We throw three wreaths (oak or fir-green) into the fire.
The first one: "To the dead of the great war!"
The second one: "To the dead of the German revolution!"
The third one: "To the German youth for great participation!" Song: "Where we stand, stands faithfulness."
While the first ones jump through the fire, the following verse is said:
We are the fire, we are the conflagration,
We burn before Germany's altars—
And carry the drums across the land—
And are the fanfare of the movement!
After the fire has sunken down, we fall back in rank and remain silent.
Horst Wessel song.
Silent march into the camp.
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Schlageter Memorial on 26 May Rolling of drums, softly fading out.
One speaks:
And now the trumpets are silent And the endless troops Stand still, like spell-bound.
And the flags are silently lowered, Respectfully bowing to those Who died for the country.
Seeger-Ahlert
Common song: "Comrade, now let me tell you * * *"
One: In this hour we commemorate the first soldier of the Third Reich. Today is the anniversary of the death of our fallen hero Albert Leo Schlageter.
Schlageter comes from an old peasant family from Schoenau in the Southern Black Forest, where he is also buried. After graduating from high school during the war, he volunteered at the age of 20 for field artillery regiment 76 at Freiburg, in December 1914, was wounded several times. June 1917 he became second, later first lieutenant. After his discharge from the service in February 1919 he studied catholic theology at the university at Freiburg, but joined soon thereafter a Baltic guerilla corps [Freikorps] and went from there to the Upper Silesia frontier defense group. In Silesia Schlageter's company participated brilliantly in famous battles, among others in the victorious attack on the Annaberg.
Shortly afterwards the thunderstorm in the West broke loose in which a sudden lightning struck the German fighter. The French troops moved into the Ruhr district and occupied it in violation of law and peace. Everywhere resistance flared up. Schlageter stands at the foremost front. With courageous men he crippled by bold action the communication and supply lines of the enemy. Through a coward's treason he fell into the hands of the French.
1st solo speaker:
We boys who love Germany We wrote a word on the flag,
Fight!
And whether the cowards anxiously hesitate And speak: Alas, you cannot force it,
Whether they hate us or they kill us,
We cannot do otherwise, we do our duty!
Everything that is cowardly and bad should burn,
From blood and soil is created our right.
693258—46—9
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The infamous shall burn in bright flames,
Slay everything bad, everything old!
Redeem our country from slavery and hard labor,
Forge and form the German nation!
We boys who love Germany,
We wrote a word on the flag, Fight!
2nd solo speaker:
Schlageter did not have a moment to consider when the need of his nation called him. Lieutenant on the front, battery commander at the Baltic, fighter for the national socialist movement, leader in the defense battle on the Ruhr—always ready for complete sacrifice. He knew of no other order than the duty for Germany.
3rd solo speaker:
Schlageter motto. Even if we are at present but a few, perhaps you, we, still a few more, the way is distant—the goal is clear. We go forward, step by step! Have courage, come along! Even if we are at present but a few we shall accomplish it. Common song: "Do you see the dawn in the East * * *
The leader speaks (these words are not binding):
"The deed of Schlageter which brought him before a court of justice was the attempt to explode a railway bridge across the Haarbach at Kalkum, on the line Duesseldorf-Duisburg. After the occupation of the Ruhr on 11 January, and invading armies had confiscated all railways, especially at the beginning, to insure the transport of "securities," mainly the stolen coal. A few bold men, Schlageter at their head, resolved to hamper these coal shipments by blowing up rails, switches, etc.
The Rhineland commission and the commanding general of the French Ruhr army issued strict penal laws against the sabotage troops. Already on 26 February a decree was issued which made these actions punishable by death.
These decrees formed the lawful basis for the sentence of the military court against Schlageter and his comrades. Schlageter was sentenced to death.
Under strong military guard Schlageter is dragged in the early morning of 26 May 1923 to the Golzheimer heath into a stone quarry, where the mighty Schlageter cross rises today into the sky. Led to the post of justice, the hands chained, his knees are pushed in from behind so that he sinks to the ground and kneelingly dies for Germany. But that "never" of Andreas Hofer goes through his mind—he wants to die, as he fought. He pulls
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himself up, he kneels straight. "Fire!" The salvo explodes the morning silence. Once again the body rises, only to sink down in itself."
1st solo speaker:
He lies shattered on the stones
And yet was even now just like we . . .
The sun will not shine for us anymore And disconcerted is our sorrow,
As if the last hope would lie here.
God, dark to us are your ways:
This was a brave comrade.
Now black is waving on our flags,
But he is with his ancestors,
A brave bearer of a great deed.
We are firmly sworn to the dead,
With him, one will and one purpose.
And although we have lost him
Yet he remains born to the fatherland
And in the grave, he still speaks: I am.
Baldur von Schirach
We lower the flags in commemoration of the dead and are silent in memory of Albert Leo Schlageter, the first soldier of the Third Reich.
("I Had A Comrade," played by the band.)
1st solo speaker: "Germany" was his last word. Born for Germany, fought for Germany, fallen for Germany.
2nd solo speaker: In the name of two million dead of the great war, in the name of the fallen of our great movement, in the name of Schlageter, Horst Wessel and Herbert Norkus, we pledge to know no other duty than Germany and to know of no greater fortune than to sacrifice our life for this Germany. All: Germany must live, and if we have to die!
Common song: "If we all become unfaithful."
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A historical moral ballad Melody: "Socrates, Socrates!"
O friends, listen to the ballad,
Which has happened some time ago,
When here governed, still before,
The system, the system!
Hair curly, the nose crooked,
He ran around boldly in this country,
And imagined himself to be strong and powerful, Isidor, Isidor!
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Him followed in the German country Quite a few doubtful characters,
United and willingly served him The parties, the parties!
The first one was in this gang A wild boy, evidently,
He created great anger,
Spartakus, Spartakus!
The second one's name was Mr. Big-shot
He was fat and feeling well
He even found also the right tone: ,
Corruption, corruption!
The third one appeared to be a religious man,
Who got everybody in his spell,
And yet... in the center was his heart,
Even so black, even so black!
The fourth one almost died from arrogance He was indeed a fine specimen;
Well, look at him, you know him already:
Reaction, reaction!
That's when poor Michel was badly off,
He was actually the Jewish slave,
He was made to suffer a great deal,
Without rest, without rest!
But finally it became too much for him This devilish game:
He gave the gang and the Jew A kick, a kick!
Now Michel is master of the house,
And inside it looks comfortable again!
The others fled the country:
Emigrant, emigrant!
Description of persons: The nose of Isidor must be strongly exaggerated, the German Michel is presented in the customary manner, the communist as a wild barricade fighter, the social democrat with a balloon hat, the Central Party man with a Jesuit cap, and the reactionary with a top hat and a monocle. The whole thing is shown as living silhouettes on a big screen. The movements of the shadows are understood without further explanation from the content. The song will be accompanied on an accordion or a mandolin by one of the singers of the moral ballad. * * *
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Plan for a 14-day camp
What is outlined below shall only be considered as example of the even distribution of various materials. The 9th of July is used as the day of arrival, the 23rd of July as the day of departure. Friday, 10 July:
Password: Adolf Hitler.
Motto for the day: Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler.
Words: That we can open our camp today, we owe to our leader Adolf Hitler.
Song: Onward, onward ....
Community hour: Is omitted since the group is still very tired.
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Saturday, 11 July:
Password: Baldur von Schirach
Motto for the day: What is against our unity, must go in the pyre!
Song: We are no civilian, peasant, workman . . .
Community hour: What do I want in the Hitler youth? (Folder of the Reich Youth Leadership)
Sunday, 12 July:
Password: Germany
Motto for the day: Germany, Germany above all!
Words for the morning celebration: We are not in the Hitler youth to be provided for for life, to receive perhaps a position or office later on, but we want to serve Germany unselfishly, as it is mentioned in the song: "We carry in our beating hearts the faith in Germany."-Song: On, raise our flags .... -Community hour: Is omitted on account of Sunday service, i.e. sports contests etc.
Monday, 13 July:
Password: Widukind
Motto for the day: To be one nation is the religion of our time. Words: If we fight for creating a united youth organization and that all young men will be in it, then we serve our nation, because the youth of today will become the nation of tomorrow.
Song: Holy fatherland.....
Community hour: We confess to the ideal of our ancestors (Folder of the RYL)
Tuesday, 14 July:
Password: Frederick the Great
Motto for the day: It is not necessary that I live, but indeed necessary that I do my duty!
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Words: We speak of the principle of volunteering, on which basis we have met.
Song: The marching of the column sounds......
Community hour: Prussianism—our ideal.
Wednesday, 15 July:
Password: Schill
Motto for the day: Germany's defense—Germany's honor. Words: Schill revolted against a defenseless and therefore honorless Prussia. Adolf Hitler restored honor to Germany when he gave her weapons back to the German nation. We want to make ourselves strong that we never again lose our honor.
Song: Now we have to march......
Community hour: The soldier protects the German work (Folder of the RYL)
Thursday, 16 July:
Password: Langemarck
Motto of the day: You have not fallen in vain!
Words: The camp leader speaks of the respect the whole youth should have for the two million dead who have fallen in the world war. They fell for Germany; we strengthen ourselves also for Germany.
Therefore we are the heirs of the front. Once the soldiers of the great war were pulled through the dirt (they were called murderers!) ; today the whole German youth goes on a pilgrimage to the places of the killed and lowers its flags in memory of their holy sacrifice.
Song: Wild geese rush through the night....
Community hour:' Out of the world war grew the Third Reich (Folder of the RYL)
Friday, 17 July:
Password: Richthofen
Motto for the day ; Nation, you are flying again!
Words: The camp leader tells about the determined sacrifice which the few German combat aviators had to make during the world war. Names like Immelmann, Boelcke, Richthofen are not forgotten. Today we own a strong air fleet which has taken over the tradition of those few who have accomplished the impossible with technically imperfect planes.
Song: Soldiers carry rifles...
Community hour: Letters and some excerpts are read from the numerous good books about aviation.
Saturday, 18 July:
Password: Schlageter
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Motto for the day: Fight is the highest aim of youth.
Words': The camp leader speaks about the fact that we all have to become fighters, that we have to accept as slogans for our life all that which requires from us a manly, heroical attitude: What does not kill me, makes me only stronger! One does not beg for a right, one fights for it! What is good ?—To be brave is good! He who fights, has right, he who does not fight, has lost all the right! What we can do ourselves, we must not leave to God . . . Therefore pray, when we have to pray: God let us never be cowardly!
Song: Unroll the bloody-red flags......
Community hour: Germans in the world—Versailles is burdening us (Folders of RVL).
Sunday, 19 July:
Password: Herbert Norkus
Motto for the day: Our service to Germany is divine service! Song: Now let the flags wave........
Morning celebration: On this morning a bigger morning celebration takes place.
Fundamental thought: We cannot be called heretics and pagans, if we have made the readiness of sacrifice of a Herbert Norkus the slogan of our lives.
Community hour: Is omitted because of Sunday service, i.e., parents' day, contests etc.
Monday, 20 July:
Password: Blood
Motto for the day: To remain pure and become mature.......
Words: The camp leader talks about this motto by Walter Flex and demands from the boys clean, decent thinking and action. The sentence is not valid for us: Service is service and liquor is liquor, but: Everything or nothing!
Song: Young nation, step-up for your hour......
Community hour: Ideological examination for the Hitler Youth and German Youth efficiency medal.
Tuesday, 21 July:
Password: Honor.
Motto of the day: To the member of the youth organization his honor is the greatest!
Words: The camp leader speaks about this motto.
Song: Behind the flag we march.........
Community hour: See 20 July.
Wednesday, 22 July:
Password: Old Guard
Motto of the day: Germany must live, even if we have to die!
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Son: Through Great-Berlin we march..........
Final celebration:
On this evening the final celebration takes place, at which time the camp leader speaks for the last time. Adolf Hitler, Baldur von Schirach, Widukind, Frederick the Great, Schile, Langemarck, Richthofen, Schlageter, Herbert Norkus,.Blood, Honor, Old Guard were the passwords. All confess to the one word Germany which shall also prevail over the whole life of the young boy.
Extracts from a Hitler Youth handbook, including parades, mottoes, quotations from Hitler and others, celebrations, solstice bonfire, and camp programs
Authors
Baldur Schirach, von (Nazi youth leader; governor of Vienna)
Baldur von Schirach*
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)
- Born: 1907-05-09 (Berlin)
- Died: 1974-08-08 (Kröv)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: autobiographer; politician; screenwriter
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Military branch: Wehrmacht
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Date: 1937
Literal Title: Excerpts from Enjoyment, Discipline, Belief (Freude Zucht Glaube) Handbook for cultural work in camp
Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von
Total Pages: 8
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2436
Citations: IMT (page 255), IMT (page 259)
HLSL Item No.: 450295
Notes:Another copy was entered as US exhibit 859 in the case against Schirach.
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-2436: Instructional description, 1937, of program layouts at Hitler youth meetings: slogans, songs and so forth, for flag parades, celebrations, etc.