NEW GLOUCESTER – Undaunted by Monday’s rain, the annual Memorial Day Parade moved along a roughly 2-mile course welcomed by parade-goers under umbrellas waving and applauding.
The annual event began at the AMVET Post No. 6 Hall on Route 100 and meandered to Memorial School on Route 231.
The Gray-New Gloucester middle and high school bands stayed aboard their yellow bus while heralding musical offerings under cover.
A delegation of nine recently returned New Gloucester National Guard members of the 133rd Engineering Battalion stood astride a military truck to receive thanks from the crowd.
State Rep. Michael A. Vaughan, R-Durham, honored the members on behalf of Maine’s Legislature during the Memorial Day ceremony at Memorial School in New Gloucester.
Honor guards representing AMVET Post No. 6, American Legion Post 86 in Gray, the New Gloucester and Poland Fire Departments, Girl and Boy scouts and other town-organized groups marched in the steady rain. A line of farm tractors joined the parade route.
The 15th Alabama, Company G, a civil war re-enactment group marched firing muskets at the wreath laying ceremony at Upper Gloucester and Memorial School.
“We’re here to honor the nation’s fallen. If they can take the fire, we can take the rain,” Vaughan said.
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