The tail end of this year's Mum Parade is passing by the Bristol Press windows now, with the music from "High School Musical" blaring out as the crowd cheers.
So it's almost a wrap for what may well be the largest Mum Parade yet. The crowds are lining the seemingly endless route through downtown - and it appears that a third of the city's 60,000 residents are somehow in the parade.
There's no denying the event is the city's most popular, especially on a sparkling clear, warm autumn afternoon.
From what I could see -- and I saw most of the parts of the parade several times -- the biggest cheers went to a small contingent of soldiers on a military Humvee as the community once again proved that whatever it thinks of the war, it loves the troops.
People along the route "would stand up and cheer," said Pat Nelligan, the reservist driving the Humvee, who just got back from a trip to Kuwait and the front lines.
I'll post a full report on the parade later.
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4 comments:
Just got back from the parade. Way to long alot of people are in the parade that do not need to be. Too many dancing schools, hair salons, etc. As for the military that was by far one of the best parts of the Mum parade!
Yeah, it's a long, long parade, but it's wonderful in that it has all those dancing schools, gyms, karate kids, hair salons and what not. It's a true community parade, open to everything all the way down to, well, even politicians!
No journalists, though. They have to draw a line somewhere.
no journalists? then who were those clowns I saw? must have been the politicians.
:-)
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