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Veterans Day Parade - Sunday, November 11th, 2012
The annual Veterans Day Parade will be held on Sunday, November 11, 2012. The parade begins at the Walgreens parking lot on Massachusetts Avenue in East Arlington at 10:30 a.m. and proceeds along Mass. Ave. to Monument Square in Arlington center by the fire station. Ceremonies will be held at Monument Square to honor all those from Arlington who served their country in its time of greatest need.
Attending will be Gold Star Parents, Joe & Joan Connor whose son John was “Killed in Action” in Panama. Also attending will be, the Combined Veterans’ Council of Arlington Color Guard, Police and Fire Honor Guards, state and local politicians, Menotomy Minutemen, veterans representing the American Legion Post 39, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1775, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 49, and the Marine Corps League – Lt. Stanley Benner Detachment.
The anniversary of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when the Treaty of Versailles was signed marking the end of World War I will be remembered 11:00 a.m. with 11 long blasts from the Fire Department in Arlington Center. Grand Marshals for this year’s parade will be “In Memoriam” Alan J. Avery and Michael D. Camerlengo, both of whom were “Killed In Action” in Vietnam and recently honored by memorials erected in Arlington.
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