Memorial Day Parade 2016

Memorial Day Parade 2016 May 30, 2016

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Yes, this year, as Cub Scout pack committee chair, I marched rather than watched.

In this picture, an older Boy Scout and a dad are carrying the flags; during the parade each boy wanted a turn carrying the flag, then discovered fairly quickly that it was acutally heavy, and then someone else took a turn.  They also had candy to hand out (OK, throw out), and were so over-excited it lasted half the route.  Note to self:  ration the candy next year, since all the exhortations of the dads, “Pace yourself!” had no effect.  (There are no spectators in this picture because it was taken in the line-up area by the railroad tracks before hitting the actual start of the parade.)

I’ve got no pictures of relatives, however distant, dying in wars, so I can’t share them today.  My mother’s father was too old, and my father’s father was employed in an “important to the war effort” job.  My great-uncle was in the Air Force in World War II, and two uncles were in Vietnam, but all returned safe and sound.  My grandfather-in-law was a POW, and never in good health afterwards — but, well, yeah, that was in Siberia, after being conscripted into the German army as an ethnic German in annexed Poland.

So this is as best as I can do for the day.


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