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Show Presidential Ceremony Old Stuff to Marine Twenty-one year old Marine Private First Class Richard G. Callahan of Alexandria, Va., is young in age, but an "old salt" when it comes to presidential inaugurations. in-augurations. Callahan, who will be one of the more than 1200 Marines in ( the inaugural parade January 20, witnessed his first inaugural parade at six. His mother took Richard to see the unprecedented unprecedent-ed fourth inauguration of Pres. Roosevelt in 1945. Since that time Richard has actively participated par-ticipated in every presidential inauguration in Washington. This time he will march in the parade with the Marine Corps' combat battalion from Marine Corps Schools, Quantica, Va. He recalls marching before Harry Truman on January 20, 1949. As a member of the Washington, D.C., Boy Scout Troop 100 he carried the American flag. "It was windy that day. The flag felt heavier than I was and I thought that I'd never make it to Washington Circle." At President Eisenhower's inauguration in-auguration in 1953, Callahan was a Senior Scout Patrol Leader of Troop 100 and was in charge of the Boy Scout ushers at the stands near the White House. In the 1957 inauguration he participated parti-cipated in the parade as a member mem-ber of the St. John's College Military High School marching unit. PFC Callahan also recalled that his mother attended the 1937 Presidential inaugural ball. The young Leatherneck has met and shaken hands with Mr. , Truman and Mr. Eisenhower. He hopes some day to do the same with Mr. Kennedy. |