The weather could not have cooperated better for numerous Memorial Day parades around the Central New York region. That led to generous crowds and widespread participation for the event that honors and remembers those of the nation’s military who perished.
The Memorial Day Parade in Fayetteville included participants from a wide variety of organizations – and spanned both young and old. Military vehicles joined with marchers in uniform from various branches of the service and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The crowd enjoyed music along the parade route as the Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band went through and the Fayetteville-Manlius High School band marched by.
Youth was served by the young musicians, as well as marchers from a girl scout troop, along with children street-side waving flags. First responders were also part of the parade with an antique fire truck and those who respond to the area’s emergencies in uniform joining the procession.
Sunny skies and temperatures already in the 70’s by mid-morning made for a perfect parade day in Fayetteville – and the numerous other C-N-Y communities that, this Memorial Day, honored local service members who gave their lives for the nation.
