They like to get them young in the Orange Order, preferably before they are onto solids.
A number of stalls in the field at Keady yesterday sold tiny bibs with mottoes such as "born in Ulster" or "born to walk; Garvaghy Road" emblazoned on them. At the same stalls one could also buy an inflatable rubber hammer, with a Union Jack colour scheme, along with flags, sunglasses, and mobile phone covers based on the same scheme.
All that was missing was a Spice Girls-style Union Jack mini-dress. Perhaps next year. The one thing you can be sure about with the Orange Order is that there will always be a next year.
This year, however, the brethren of Armagh were impeccably turned out. Not for them the shellsuits and jeans of some Belfast lodges; in Keady it was suits and bowlers or bust. One marcher sported a leather stetson in place of his bowler hat but bearing in mind the Order's international spread, he might not have been from these parts.
E-mail greetings from "imperial" associates in New Zealand and Togo were read out although what the latter would have made of the Rev Martin Smyth's description of their country as still being "largely a French colony" is debatable.
In one of the day's speeches, UUP chairman Mr Smyth, called on all branches of unionism to unite in the struggle against the British government's appeasement of terrorism.
He said unionists should be like the Orange Order, which united many diverse brands of Protestantism. In the Order he said Presbyterianism, Anglicanism, Episcopalianism, Methodism and Pentecostalism were joined with "any other ism that is sticking to the basic Christian principles of the scriptures of truth".
Mr Denis Watson, Armagh County Grand Master, called on Orangemen to sign a new human rights covenant, committing themselves to "stand together for the full restoration of our freedom and liberties".
For most, the prayers and speeches were not the main business of the day. Most of those in the field chatted, picnicked, drank or lay out recovering from the night before and the march after that. Many seemed unaware of the minute's silence remembering past members.
No alcohol was on sale but Orange self-reliance was winning the struggle with Orange temperance as young bands men and women and their friends sat around the piles of bottled beer and tonic wine they had brought with them.
Throughout the day rain clouds had gathered, disappeared and returned. Like Rome Rule, the rain threatened but never came and the bands and lodges departed from the field as dry as ever.