Veteran's Day in Memphis

A little bit ago I kept hearing ALL THESE KIDS on the city street below my office window. They must've been on the sidewalk on my side of the street though, because I could hear them but I couldn't see them. It was like having an office above a playground.

The sirens didn't really alert me to anything, because I'm used to hearing firetrucks run up and down the street below my window.

When the band started playing I realized THERE WAS ABOUT TO BE A PARADE!

So some of the other girls in my office & I went down to the sidewalk to watch it. (We couldn't really watch it from our windows, because my building has a GIANT FLAG covering the whole front of it. I guess we could have watched from upstairs, but you can only see through it if you keep moving our head around.)

The Veteran's Day parade basically consisted of every single Jr. ROTC group in the Mid-South area.

No seriously. Every single one.

Also, several high school and middle school bands. And a few vans with what I can only assume were veterans inside waving to us. Like, "Let's load up these vets in the van and drive them down 2nd Street for the parade." And beauty queens. I was especially concerned for the ones who did not have convertibles or sunroofs to ride on.

I was afraid one would fall out and crack open her skull.