Although we've been hog-tied with personal business for most of the day, there's one more immediately upcoming local event we'd like to spotlight this evening, before it's too late.
In that connection, the Standard-Examiner published a heads-up article this morning, highlighting tomorrow's Ogden City Veteran's Day Parade, which begins its march through the streets of downtown Ogden around 11:00 a.m.. For details, SE journalistic legend Charlie Trentelman provides this most excellent writeup:
• Patriotic parade steps off SaturdayWe've attended this parade every year since its inception on November 6, 2006, when the original parade route proceeded east on Ogden's Historic 25th Street, then north on Washington Boulevard, and then west on 24th Street, and then south again to Ogden's Lindquist Park. We published an article memorializing that event and we have the pictures to prove it.
For unknown reasons, the Boss Godfrey administration has now designated a route through Ogden backstreets which completely avoids the traditional heart of our city. Perhaps for subconscious reasons Boss Godfrey wants to again remind parade attendees of his most conspicuous financial failure -- The Junction -- inasmuch as tomorrow's parade route essentially wraps around that grand monument to mayoral hubris and stupidity.
We'll be standing along the parade route tomorrow nevertheless.... tiny digital camera in hand. If you spot a fairly large teary-eyed powerlifter-type draped in a giant Hawaiian shirt, standing along the parade route and occasionally snapping a crisp U.S. Army-style military salute, be sure to step up and say hello; odds are that'll most likely be your blogmeister.
Let's all also step up and support our active troops, reservists and veterans tomorrow. They've sacrificed and continued to sacrifice so much... and they've done it and continue to do it for all of us.
