Veterans honored with bands, tributes
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Participants in Saturday’s Veterans Day parade in downtown Clinton wave to the crowd on Main Street. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Veterans attending a Veterans Day program in downtown Norris on Monday morning pose for a group photo in the Norris Lions Club Pavilion. The event is sponsored annually by the local Lions Club chapter. - G. Chambers Williams III
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The flag is raised as the Anderson County High School band’s bugle corps plays in the background during Monday morning’s Veterans Day ceremony in front of the Norris post office. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Norris City Councilman Bill Grieve, a U.S. Army veteran, lays a wreath at the Norris Veterans Memorial Garden in front of the post office during Monday morning’s Veterans Day ceremony. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Representatives of Norris First Baptist Church ride in the Anderson County Veterans Day parade in downtown Clinton on Saturday morning, Nov. 9. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Smoky Mountain Sea Cadets march in last Saturday’s Veterans Day parade in downtown Clinton. - G. Chambers Williams III
Hundreds of people lined Main and Market streets in downtown Clinton on Saturday morning for the 16th-annual Anderson County Veterans Day parade.
The parade included the combined marching bands of Clinton and Anderson County high schools, JROTC contingents, veterans groups, emergency vehicles, Shriners, and more.
Sponsored by the Anderson County American Legion Post 172 and Legion Riders Post 172, in conjunction with VFW Post 12051, Amvets Post 2 and DAV Tri-County Chapter 26, the parade was held to honor all who have served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Units of the parade formed behind the Clinton Community Center, and the procession started after the November community veterans breakfast, held in the gymnasium of the Community Center starting at 8:30 a.m.
Other tributes to veterans took place across the county on Monday, which was the actual holiday this year.
In Norris, the Lions Club hosted an event for veterans MOnday morning at the pavilion and followed that with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Norris Veterans Memorial Garden in front of the post office.