LIVE: Veterans Day Parade on 5th Ave, New York City

The Veterans Day Parade is held on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Nov. 11.

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[AnniSturgill]

Thank you for your Service.We all love you and admire your hard work and dedication to our Country.Without you we wouldn't have a country to enjoy.May God Bless you all!!❤❤❤😊🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️

[sauquoit]

I am a proud U.S. Navy veteran, served from 1963 to 1967, during the Vietnam War era.
The following incident happened at least twenty years ago on Veterans Day, which would have made me around sixty years old at the time.
I was exiting a Hess gas station in upstate NY, while holding the door open for an elderly woman, and maybe because it was Veterans Day, she asked me if I was a veteran.
I nodded, and she replied with “Thank you for your service”
My response was “Well, I didn't do much, I'm not combat veteran” and she came back with “That doesn't matter”.
To me, it did matter, most of my fours years was on the USS Wright (CC-2), a ship whose home port was in peaceful and safe Norfolk, Virginia.
While halfway around the world thousands of my military brothers were putting their lives on the line.
Here is the sad reality; over 58, 000 of our American heroes were killed, in addition there were 766 POWs, and 114 of them never made it home, for they died while in VC prisoner of war camps.
Shame on us if we ever forget to honor those brave American souls.
Two Footnotes:
1. The price of gas at the fore mentioned Hess station was $2.30 per gallon.
2. July 18th, 2015: DT “John McCain is only a hero because he got captured, I like people who didn't get captured”. SOB

[definitely_not_a_bot]

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[Michael-vzs]

Just a thought? Compared to lets say the west Indian paraded? Interesting how many stabbing or arrest? Compare
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