2014 NORTON MEMORIAL DAY PARADE UPDATE
Monday May 26, 2014
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It was a day when the sun tried to peek through the clouds in the Norton sky as Nortonites young and old lined the streets of Route 123 to attend the 2014 Norton Memorial Day Parade and Norton Police Honor Guard and Fire Department and Town Selectmen and Norton veterans and Boy and Girl Scouts and the U.S Army Band and myself walked down the parade route as the Parade started at the Henri A. Yelle elementary school and walked through Norton Common and the first stop was at the Pine Street Cemetery where Gary Cameron spoke a message and the Norton Police Honor Guard fired their rifles in the air and played taps and then went to the Monument at Pine Street where they did more taps followed by a prayer by Bernard Hinckley, pastor of the Trinitarian Congregational Church and then marched to the Norton Common where Selectman Michael Yuntis and Tim Giblin spoke a message and also State Representative Steven Howitt spoke a message and also the U.S Army Band played the Star Spangled Banner and a couple of patriotic tunes and they did the Pledge of Alliegence and they made a stop before the parade was over to the Gregory Trent Memorial where the Norton Police honor guard did one more rifle fire up in the sky and one more playing of taps and that concluded a great 2014 Norton Memorial Day Parade and everyone had a good time and I brought my pride to Norton and my Country by support the men and women of the town who put their lives on the line for their country’s ultimate sacrifice and it was a great parade.