Okay, so it wasn’t a Wright Flyer. But I was close. Our 2013 City of Leavenworth Veterans Day
Parade flyover was a biplane. You read
that correctly. A biplane. Have you ever seen a flyover by a
biplane? You could have read War and
Peace in the time it took to fly across the parade route, and the city is
only eight blocks wide.The rest of the parade went as expected,
except for one pleasant surprise.
Our AHG troop stopped at the reviewing stand. We turned as a group and saluted the
flag. Then the girls sang the first
verse of “God Bless America.” A large
contingent of soldiers from Fort Leavenworth sat on the reviewing stand. Every time an American flag passed the
reviewing stand, the soldiers stood and saluted. Since we stopped to sing, they remained standing,
holding their salute. There was one
soldier in his dress blue uniform. He
was an E8 or E9. I noticed that he was softly
singing along with the girls. He was the
only soldier who joined in the song. It
was fun to watch.
