Memorial Day Parade in Borodino - May 30, 2004

First parade in the last 50 years -- and maybe the shortest parade ever -- just 100 yards from the Borodino Fire Department on Nunnery Road to the new veterans monument on the corner Nunnery Road and Route 41. 

 [History of this memorial]

Video clip of flag painters attempting to remove a paint can lid.

Johanna and Gianfranco Frittelli stop to talk to Memorial Committee chairman and town councilor Fred Chappell.

Memorial Day organizer Bill Case with Bagpiper Jack Heinz.

 Spafford Fire Department

State Senator John DeFrancisco was one of the guest speakers. "Spafford knows how to run a parade. Keeping a parade short is the key."

VFW Post 5494 in Marietta - Commander Frazier Hunt formed the color guard.

Colonel Michael Hughes was a guest speaker.

Bagpiper Jack Heinz.

Borodino United Methodist Church choir. Click to play video clip.

Presentation of the memorial wreath by John Butler and Woody Woodmansee. Click to play video clip with bagpipes in background.

Invocation by Reverend Timothy O'Connor-Slater of Borodino Methodist Church. Benediction by Reverend David Olcott of Rose Hill Baptist Church. Taps played by David D'Amico of Boy Scout Troop 61. Salute by Mike Curtis.

 

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