Thursday, November 10, 2011

Happy Veteran's Day!

Happy Veterans Day! Did anyone check out the parade last weekend?

Bands, floats, military vehicles and motorcycles will cruise down Tejon Street in Colorado Springs Saturday morning for the city's 11th annual Veterans Day Parade.
Organizers say the parade is the biggest one yet, with 14 bands more than a dozen floats, including many that mark the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Fort Carson's 4th Infantry Division band will lead off the parade at 10 a.m. starting on Tejon at St. Vrain Street and marching south to Vermijo Avenue
The parade includes eight grand marshalls — all Pearl Harbor survivors.
"We hope we have as many as 20,000 or 30,000 turn out for the parade," said Eileen Howe, one of the parade's organizers.
Also on tap is an annual highlight for the parade — a four-engined C-130 transport plane from Peterson Air Force Base will give the event a flying finish when it roars down the route.
Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/parade-127899-day-tejon.html#ixzz1closNLXU

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