SAN ANTONIO — A high school senior is marching into the future—snare drum in hand and Marine blues on the horizon.
Dominic Ramirez, a passionate percussionist and graduating senior at Harlandale High School, has enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and earned a spot in the highly competitive Marine Band—an elite unit known for its musical excellence and rigorous audition process.
“Official last day,” Ramirez said on his final afternoon of high school Wednesday. “I’ll see [my teachers] at graduation, but this is the last time I’ll be in their classroom.”…