Manchester Memorial Day Parade, Ceremony Set

MANCHESTER, NJ — Manchester Township officials are inviting the community to join in the annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony on Monday.

The parade will assemble at 9:15 a.m. at the corner of Southampton and Commonwealth boulevards and will march from there to the Grand Army Memorial on Oakdale Street at Wellington Avenue in Pine Lake Park.

The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at the memorial.

Kids are invited decorate their bicycles in a patriotic theme and join in the parade.

Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. It was originally known as Decoration Day and originated in the years following the Civil War, according to History.com. It became an official federal holiday in 1971.