Members of VFW Publish #12106 march in 2018 Veterans Day Parade.
Invoice O’BrienBRANFORD — Purple Coronary heart recipient Cpl. Jack Dougherty, USMC, the primary Marine from Connecticut to be chosen because the Nationwide Marine of the 12 months, will headline Branford’s annual Veterans Day celebration, which can happen Sunday, Nov. 6 in town inexperienced.
Dougherty will lead the parade, which steps off at 1:30 p.m. from the Inexperienced. Following him would be the Stony Creek Fife and Drum Corps, the Branford Excessive Faculty Band, and the Branford City Band, in addition to an infusion of youth: the Col. John Chester Fife & Drum Corps from Wethersfield.
“They have been shaped in 1940 and are the oldest constantly lively junior historic fife and drum corps in Connecticut,” mentioned Invoice O’Brien, chairman of the Veterans Parade Committee.
Army models embody members of VFW Publish #12106, Corcoran-Sundquist Publish #83 American Legion, and Take a Vet Fishing. Additionally within the parade might be city and state officers, members of the Branford Backyard Membership, and a contingent of vintage and classic automobiles.
Previous the parade might be a ceremony on the Inexperienced at 1 pm. There might be memorial ceremonies on the city’s seven cemeteries starting at 9 a.m., and a Naval Remembrance Service on the South Montowese Avenue bridge at 12:15 p.m.
Within the occasion of inclement climate, the Branford Excessive Faculty health club will stage the ceremony starting at 1 p.m.
