For many years, the pride of the Charles T. Norwood American Legion Post was the Post’s Drum and Bugle Corps. The exact date the Drum and Bugle Corps was first organized is unknown, but they existed for many years and will into the 1960s. They participated in American Legion’s National Convention in New York City, New York, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cleveland, Ohio, and many State Conventions. They also participated in Homecoming, Christmas Parades, Armistice Day Celebrations (Veterans Day) and Memorial Day Programs. The late Legionnaire Wiley Roach of the Post’s Drum and Bugle Corps received national recognition in the Raleigh News and Observer by its publisher the late Mr. Josephus Daniels for their participation in the New York 29th National Convention as the marched down Fifth Avenue.
Charter members of the Charles T. Norwood Drum and Bugle Corps were Legionnaires:
Grady Johnson, Vann D. Alston, Alford Horton, W. H Green, Usher Newkirk, Samuel Kittrell, W. R. Taylor, S. S. Hayes, J. W. Alston, Arthur Giles, George Perry, James Young, Shepherd Faulk, Wiley Roach and Spurgeon Yancey.
