JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville and News4Jax honored the men and women who have fought for our country’s freedoms in one of the largest Veterans Day parades in the Southeast.
The patriotic presentation featured grand marshals, senior military officials, active-duty and retired military, veterans groups, local high school marching bands, decorative floats, giant balloons, JROTC units and more marching through the streets of Downtown to show their appreciation for our retired and active-duty service members.
Altogether more than 4,000 people were involved. The City of Jacksonville’s Veterans Day Parade was sponsored by the Law Offices of Ron Sholes, P.A.
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Veterans Day was originally known as Armistice Day, which is still celebrated in other countries along with Remembrance Day, marking the end of World War I. Major hostilities in the war formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the eleventh month in 1918. At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 and is observed annually on Nov. 11 as a federal holiday in the United States.