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Large crowd honors veterans at Lower Makefield parade

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Hundreds of participants and onlookers turned out on a bright sunny Saturday, Nov. 6, for the 15th annual Lower Makefield Township Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony.
Veterans from local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, Girl and Boy Scout troops, first responders and many others marched about a mile up Edgewood Road to Veterans Square Park at Edgewood and Heacock roads, where a ceremony emceed by township supervisors Chairwoman Suzanne Blundin was held.
“Veterans are defending us 365 days a year,” she said. “Too often, their service and sacrifices go unnoticed by those of us whose security it has provided.”
This year marked the return of both the parade and the ceremony after only the ceremony was held last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The parade marshal was retired Army Captain and Lower Makefield resident Adrian Saguil, a woman who served two tours in Iraq and received several decorations during her military career.
She and Ryan Hough accepted citations from U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, state Sen. Steve Santarsiero and state Rep. Perry Warren. Hough’s citations honored the life of his father, the late Dennis Hough, the mason who built Veterans Square Monument with Premier Builders.
The ceremony commemorated the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, welcomed home those who served in Afghanistan and dedicated the 10th Wall of Honor Bronze Plaque on the monument, with the inscribed names of 90 Lower Makefield Township and Yardley Borough veterans.
“Veterans and first responders do something that is counterintuitive in that they willingly run into danger at great physical and emotional sacrifice, all in the name of serving a cause bigger than themselves,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s important we honor our veterans, not only on Veterans Day but every day.”


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