Memorial Day ceremonies and parades honor fallen service members throughout the Tri-State
NEW YORK (WABC) — Memorial Day ceremonies and parades are going down all throughout the Tri-State on Monday.
The occasions are honoring our fallen U.S. service members who made the last word sacrifice.
Along with a ceremony in Manhattan on the Intrepid Museum, different communities throughout the realm are taking a second to mirror acknowledge the fallen.
Honest Garden, New Jersey
The annual Honest Garden Memorial Day parade kicked off with enormous fanfare as army, civic, volunteer and repair teams all participated within the particular occasion.
The city celebrates its veterans each day with indicators posted all over the place to recollect the native residents who fought to guard this nation.
One other parade occurred in Neptune Township the place 96-year-old Korean Conflict veteran Bob Hodges was the honorary co-grand marshal.
The township traditions that so many cherish are bringing generations collectively as they share time with family and friends and have fun the perfect of America.
Anthony Johnson has extra from Honest Garden, New Jersey.
Brooklyn
A whole lot of individuals lined the streets of Brooklyn for the 158th Memorial Day Parade. They made their means down Third Avenue to Marine Avenue and can find yourself in John Paul Jones Park in Bay Ridge.
There, a solemn ceremony shall be held that may embrace bag pipes, a wreath laying, a 21-gun salute and the enjoying of faucets.
This 12 months’s grand marshal is Main Gen. Kris A. Belanger, the commanding basic of the 99th Readiness Division.
Nassau County
On Lengthy Island, the Nassau County govt joined veterans and first responders as they paused for the annual county-wide second of silence in honor of fallen service members.
The somber ceremony occurred at Morgan Memorial Park in Glen Cove.
After the ceremony, a parade paid tribute to Corporal William “Billie” Morse, who was a neighborhood sports activities star killed in motion in 1968 in the course of the Vietnam Conflict.
Lindsay Tuchman has extra from Jones Seaside.
Chappaqua
In Westchester County, former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been among the many many who paid tribute at Chappaqua’s annual Memorial Day parade.
Hearth vans and marching bands entertained kids and households who lined the parade route because the Clintons marched down King Avenue in an annual custom that’s close to and expensive to their hearts.
“I feel it is a very tangible means of remembering our veterans, those that misplaced their lives, everybody who served, and we’d like extra of that,” Hillary Clinton mentioned.
For individuals who served within the army, the occasion pays tribute to the women and men who served alongside them and shed their blood for the freedoms all of us cherish — and that’s essential to recollect not simply right now, however day-after-day.
Joe Torres has extra from the annual Memorial Day Parade in Chappaqua.
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