The 103rd Annual Parade in Honor of War Veterans was held in Manhattan and in the rain on Friday.
Before the march, the solemn wreath ceremony was held in honor of the war dead and saw the participation of the Grand Martial of the Parade: Vincent Patton, the first Chief Warrant Officer of the African American Army.
“As you can see, all the ‘wreaths’ (offerings) we have here come from the different wars that veterans have fought and given their entire lives,” explained Diego Rubio, Advisory Board of the United War Veterans Council.
Tribute to veterans.
“It’s the largest veterans parade here in the United States and we’ve been honored and proud to have every generation of veterans every year and this year it’s the Coast Guard,” Rubio added.
Along 20 blocks of Fifth Avenue walked more than 20,000 participants from Army, Police, Navy and Vietnam-era, Korean- and Gulf War-era generations, as well as delegates from militaries from allied countries.
“We come here because we hear the same concepts, the same principles that have been fought for over the years, that is, for freedom, for justice, for democracy and for there to be peace in the world,” Colonel Guillermo said. , Passive Service of Ecuador.
And in the audience of the procession, of course, we find those who have come to support their loved ones, who are part of the public force or who are also war veterans.
“Remembering the first year Freddy, my son’s brother-in-law, was in the Marines and I also support my nephew a cop, my daughter in the police department, we are proud to be here today,” said parade attendee Gloria Calle.
“We came to ‘support’ my family, we have two grandchildren who are in the Sea Cadets organization of New York, the King family, they opened the parade carrying the flag,” said Zaima Díaz.
