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See/Hear It: LB Veterans Day Parade
Two parts roughly 45 mins each below)


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(November 11, 2018) -- As webcast live with on-demand video below, the 2018 LB Veterans Day Parade stepped off at 10:00 a.m. Nov. 10 from Atlantic Ave. at South St.

For on-demand video coverage, click links below (two parts, roughly 45 mins. each).

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The 22nd annual parade included two 100+ year old WWII veterans, honored as Centenarian Grand Marshals.

  • Lt. Col. Sam Sachs, age 103, a WWII veteran who successfully piloted a glider into Nazi-occupied France, carrying machine guns, ammunition and eight U.S. soldiers. His glider took heavy enemy anti-aircraft fire but managed to land safely in a French farm area about two miles from D-Day's Utah Beach, "In those gliders, you were just like a pigeon up there," LTC Sachs said in a parade press release statement. LTC Sachs subsequently participated in another glider landing in the Netherlands near the end of WWII and sent on to serve in the Army reserves until his retirement 32 years later.

  • Lt. Col. Guy Autore, age 104, a WWII veteran who served in the Pacific Theater, deployed to the Marshall Islands, Guadalcanal and the Philippines. A parade release says LTC Autore "still makes his bed military style, maintains all his service records, and regularly plays Scrabble."

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The parade's Grand Marshal was Terry Geiling, president/CEO of the American Gold Star Manor in WLB (a senior retirement facility for women who lost sons/daughters in U.S. military service.) Mr. Geiling's military service included deployments in the Western Pacific to support Naval activities in the South China Sea and Tonkin Gulf during the Vietnam era and multiple submarine special operations in the Pacific from Australia to the Bering Straits.

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The parade's Celebrity Grand Marshal was former Dodger Kenny Landreaux, part of the Blue Crew's 1981 World Series champion team (in which he caught the final out of the series.) Mr. Landreaux graduated from Compton's Dominguez High and attended Arizona State University.

The parade was followed by an open-street festival along the parade route north to Harding St. with music, food and vendors and a Vets Fest offering services to veterans and running to 3 p.m.

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