Memorial Day parade this Sunday

[ron_newman]

Somerville's annual Memorial Day parade will happen this Sunday, starting at 1 pm at City Hall. It will march down Highland Ave. to Davis Square, then up Holland Street to Teele Square, then up Broadway to the Clarendon Hill veterans' cemetery.

From the city's official announcement: "The parade will include 20 marching bands, along with a wide range of community and school groups, specialty unit from the Aleppo Shriners, and local veterans', fire, and police outfits from surrounding cities and towns."

Please note the parking restrictions in the official announcement. Buses will not run to Clarendon Hill between 11 am and 4 pm.

Comments

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

a shame it isn't a peace parade...

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

It's a parade to honor the memories of all of those gone before. Please don't make this political.

I'll be marching. Look for the girl in uniform.

[ron_newman]

I'll look for you, though I doubt you'll be the only 'girl in uniform'. What group are you marching in?

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

The last two times I marched I was, in fact, the only girl in uniform (sad but true). I hope that's changed.

VFW of course.

[ron_newman]

And somehow I managed to miss you and the entire VFW marching delegation, even though I was specifically looking for you all ;-(

[ron_newman]

You may be interested in this event tomorrow (Monday), though it's in downtown Boston rather than Somerville:

Mass. group plans alternative Memorial Day event

Here's the e-mail I got about it:

Memorial Day for Peace

When: Monday, May 31, 2010, 1:00-3:00 pm
Where: Christopher Columbus Park • Atlantic Ave. & Richmond St. • near the Aquarium • Boston
Please join Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee for a ceremony for peace on Memorial Day.
Speakers to include:
• Memorial to Howard Zinn, proud member of Veterans for Peace
• Joseph Gerson – American Friends Service Committee, Director of Programs
• Severyn Bruyn – World War II, Army Veteran (1945 – 1947)
• Bill Ashton, VFP, Smedley Butler Brigade, Navy Corpsman (1981-1986)
• Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson – Military Families Speak Out
• Ross Caputi – Marine veteran of the Iraq War (2003 – 2006), President of Boston University Anti-War Coalition
• Kevin & Joyce Lucey, parents of Corporal Jeffery Lucey, U.S.M.C.
• Melida & Carlos Arrendondo, Gold Star Families for Peace, parents of Marine Lance Corporal Alex Arrendondo U.S.M.C.
• Farouk Al-Saad – Iraqi Refugee

The Memorial Day for Peace will include Eyes Wide Open which consists of pairs of boots laid out on the lawn for each U.S. soldier from Massachusetts who has died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
We will recite the names of those fallen who passed away in support of what we believe to be illegal and illicit wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Names of some Iraq and Afghanistan civilians killed in the conflicts will also be read. We mourn deeply all those who should not have lost their lives in war, sadly, perpetrated by misguided leaders, leading a misinformed public and an over-extended military into two immoral wars we greatly oppose.

“War is a Racket”! –Smedley D. Butler , MajGen

http://smedleyvfp.org
info@massvfp.org
781–643–3307