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On Feb. 19, 2014, the Marine Band participated in the funeral for Colonel Charles Waterhouse, USMC (Ret.) at Arlington National Cemetery. Col. Waterhouse was the first and only artist-in-residence of the U.S. Marine Corps. On Feb. 19, 1945, Col. Waterhouse was seriously wounded during the first wave at Iwo Jima. Following the war, he graduated from Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He stayed on at the school as a teacher and spent the next 28 years building a reputation as an illustrator for publications such as Outdoor Life, Reader's Digest, Rutgers Press and the Boy Scouts. Three tours of duty as a combat artist in Vietnam resulted in hundreds of on-the-spot drawings that were later turned into one large volume called Delta to DMZ. In 1973, Col. Waterhouse was brought back to active duty at the rank of major to create a series of 14 paintings of the Marines in the Revolution in celebration of the bicentennial. He retired on Feb. 19, 1991. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Amanda Simmons/released)