We never call the USA national standard flag a tricolor even given it has three colors: the well known red, white, blue.
Tricolor is a European thingy word for a flag of three colors, often red, white, blue, as in the French Tricolour.
In fact I offer a friendly if not French myself challenge to match this....
La Marseillaise Bastille Day July 14 Champs de Elyesees
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Jul 14, 2019
I couldn't determine whether Merkel was also singing along en Francaise. I've gathered over some period of time Merkel is fluent in Russian, German, English, so I'd figure she knows some French if not being fluent in it.
The lyrics are of course a lot of French Revolution bloodlust but the music is stirring indeed, rousing as needs be for a revolution.
It would be apropos indeed to look at something German while we're at it....
Marsch des Yorck'schen Korps
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May 16, 2009
March in Military Band and Guard Battalion of the German Federal Armed Forces. Music: Marsch des Yorck'schen Korps or Yorckscher Marsch or The March for Military Band No.1 in F major. Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven in 1808.
Ludwig van Beethoven's "Yorkscher Marsch" is named in honor of Prussian General Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg. This ceremony is a several hundred years old Prussian military tradition and has nothing to do with "Nazis" from Third Reich or WW II, and also please realize, that the German armed forces are in the tradition of the military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi reign of terror.
(So sez the text accompanying the video. I corrected the text btw, mainly to place periods since there were only two periods in the whole thing -- although colons were correct ha -- corrected some spelling and the capitalization of the second use of Prussian. Around the time btw Beethoven wrote the march the Germans named a naval cruiser the Yorck that in WW I sunk hitting German mines in Rostock harbor on its return from participating in a raid on Yarmouth in UK ha.)
Although I don't know German, it seems to me a reasonable translation of
Marsch des Yorck'schen Korps would be something like
March of the Yorkshire Corps. The joint service forces present, as we would call Army, Navy, AF formed up together, appear to be the Bundeswehr ceremonial guards of each service.
There is no ceremonial MOS in the U.S. armed forces btw. In other words, in Washington honor guard services you are what your MOS is in each service and you also do ceremonial stuff that hasn't any code. In Washington it's voluntary in each service but I dunno about Germany, ie, whether you can say no and walk away to something else or whether you're assigned and haven't any choice. I would think the former in Germany too as no command I can think of wants ceremonial troops who rebel at the thought of all the marching and standing around and, as the Army NCO E-7 who recruited me termed it, the "'chickenshit" of white gloves, pressed uniforms, shined shoes, constant drill and ceremonial practice, inspections and inspections and inspections....and so on.
All the same this happy horsestuff is anyway a great experience for virtually all of us who volunteered to do it, officers, nco and enlisted alike, and I'm confident these German forces feel the same -- as the ceremonial troops feel the same in just about any other country's ceremonial armed forces. Just make no mistake, ie, ceremonial forces can fight tonight.