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Her girls, rehearsed within an inch of their lives, knock themselves out doing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”

“That men who have retreated for ten days, sleeping on the ground and half-dead with fatigue, should be able to take up their rifles and attack when the bugle sounds, is a thing upon which we never counted,” said German general Alexander von Kluck.

This is the position soldiers assume every day on an army post as the flag is lowered and the bugle call “Retreat” is played.

“Grumpy Trumpy Felon From Jamaica in Queens!,” a version of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” inspired by Trump’s first indictment, was the evening showstopper.

Each week, we listened to marching bands play the national anthem but heard the bugle call of “Taps.”