New York to honor Veterans with Large Parade

11 November 2008 @ 10:42 am EDT

The 2008 Veterans Day will be commemorated in New York City with a parade that's themed "Legacy of Honor," to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of the U.S. military forces.

World War II veterans look as a piper performs during a ceremony for Armistice day at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium, where the names of about 56,000 fallen soldiers of Britain and its Empire who died during the Great War of 1914-1918 are engraved and who have no individual grave, Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

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It will be the largest parade of the nation with an estimated 400,000 spectators in attendance, 20,000 participants, marching bands and military vehicles.

The event is set to start at 10:00 a.m. with an hour-long Opening Ceremony at the Eternal Light Monument in Madison Square Park . At 11:30 a.m. the parade will begin, moving up Fifth Avenue from 26th street to 56th street.

Simultaneously, a one-time event "The Crosstown March" will depart from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the West Side Highway and march along 42nd Street, joining the main parade in progress on 5th Avenue.

Street fairs will settle on 56th Street between Madison & Sixth Avenues and 50,000 copies of a commemorative newspaper will be given out during the parade with educational and historical information.

New York to honor Veterans with Large Parade

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