parade

There hasn’t been a parade through lower Manhattan in their honor since 2009, an eternity for an organization that has famously established a standard where any outcome other than a title is considered a failure.

The final parade of “national” songs was also cleverly handled: The characters, now appropriately costumed, stepped into a large frame, in front of a throne-room background, to perform.

“In a parade, they see the red beret, they cheer. They know for 45 years he’s been working for them.”

There was so much used ticker tape lying around Wall Street, in fact, that during a parade for the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on Oct.

This past July, I drove the Hawk in the Tekamah July 4 parade, with Aunt Donna in the front seat.