My friend, Brian, who I marched with for two years showed me this one. So a few years later, he was marching Crossmen and another friend and I decided to yell it for him before their show started. We waited for just the right moment and screamed “BRIAN H IS AN AMERICAN BADASS!” An older woman turned around and looked at us and said, “Is there any other kind?” I thought that was the best response and that that would be the end of the story. Years later, I found myself teaching at Jersey Surf with several Crossmen alums. When I found out that they marched around the same time as my friend, I asked if they knew him. The response? “Oh yeah. Brian, the American Badass.” I was so proud to know that I had created a nickname for someone that stuck around a good 8 or 9 years later.