Beauty queens, Boy and Girl Scout troops, local politicians, motorcyclists and antique cars were part of this year's parade.
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Daisy Troop 10428 member Ellie Tuck, 6, of Toledo, passes out candy.
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Hundreds of people crowd both sides of Main Street.
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Samuel Weimer, 5, of Sylvania, reacts to the volume of the music as a school band passes in front of him.
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Twins Quinton, left, and Kyah Wilson, 6, and their friend Branden Kershner, 7, look for the start of the parade along Main Street. With them are the twins parents John, left, and Toni Wilson. All live in Sylvania.
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Boy and Girl Scout troops, local politicians, motorcyclists and antique cars were part of this year's parade.
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Jeff Robinson, of Sylvania Township, with his daughter Kathryn, 11 months.
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Boy and Girl Scout troops, local politicians, motorcyclists and antique cars were part of this year's parade.
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Dave McVey, of Joseph Diehn American Legion Post 468, left, salutes during the posting of the colors. The color guard personnel are, John E. Schuster, left, and John A. Nye, both members of VFW Remagen Bridge Post 3717, and Joe Navarre, of American Legion Joseph W. Diehn Post 468.
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Boy and Girl Scout troops, local politicians, motorcyclists and antique cars were part of this year's parade.
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The color guard of American Legion Post #468 firing a 21-gun salute during the ceremony at Toledo Memorial Park.
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Boy and Girl Scout troops, local politicians, motorcyclists and antique cars were part of this year's parade.
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The colors, carried by a color guard with members from the American Legion Joseph W. Diehn Post 468 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Remagen Bridge Post 3717, leading the parade.
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Before the parade, the city hosted a ceremony at Toledo Memorial Park in Section 6, the veterans' section.
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Tony Geer, of Sylvania, who served in the U.S. Army in the 1980s, looking at the graves in the veterans' section at Toledo Memorial Park.
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Sylvania mayor Craig Stough during the ceremonies at the Veterans Memorial Field.
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Sylvania mayor Criag Stough [not pictured] gave a shout out to U.S. Army veteran Specialist and Northview High School graduate Matthew Drake. According to the Blade, "In October 2004, Drake was badly injured by a suicide car bomb in Iraq. Only 21 years old at the time, he suffered massive injuries, which left him with brain trauma and first- through third-degree burns, among other injuries." Drake is now living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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The Sylvania Northview High School bBand, lead by drum majors Luke Bushrow, a senior, left, and Claire Goecke, a junior.
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McKinly Gessner, 13, of Monroe, Michigan, does a flip as she and others in Sparks travel the parade route.
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Stephanie White leads a donkey-pulling cart in the parade. Riding in the cart is Tim Broue.
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The parade is lead by a Sylvania Police vehicle and a color guard with members from the American Legion Joseph W. Diehn Post 468 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Remagen Bridge Post 3717.
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Part of the flag section of the Sylvania Southview High School Marching Band.
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American Legion riders from Post 468 in the parade.
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Children along the route waved flags, cheered and scrambled for candy as the parade marched passed.
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Parade Grand Marshall Don Stoll, chaplain and service officer for VFW Remagen Bridge Post 3717. In brief remarks, he extolled the audience to respect the flag and pledge their allegiance to it.
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Crowds along Main Street applaud as veterans and currently serving military personnel parade past.
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Michael Lieber, Sylvania Town Crier, in the parade.
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