The Toledo Police Department honor guard at the start of the parade.
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Robert Schmitt, president, Toledo Lucas County Memorial Day Association.
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Emma Jackson, 12, of Toledo, looks at her flag after placing in the ground before the start of the program.
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Grand Marshall Major George R. Gordy, IV, Inspector-Instructor, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment, left, with other dignitaries during Toledo's Memorial Day parade and ceremony Saturday.
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Grand Marshall Major George R. Gordy, IV, Inspector-Instructor, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment, speaking at the event.
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Grand Marshall Major George R. Gordy, IV.
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Ashlynn Thacker, 4, of Monroe, Michigan, ponders the remarks of Rev. Robert Fry, rear, who, as a member of the U.S. Navy, who spoke of remembering seeing the caskets unloaded at Dover during the Vietnam War.
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Steve Kosinski, USMC, rtd., monitors the lowering of the flags by the Joint Honor Guard before the Memorial Day Service program at the Civic Center Mall.
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Steve Kosinski, USMC, rtd., commands the Joint Honor Guard as they raise, and lower the flags.
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Flags of the U.S. Military branches are reflected on One Government Center.
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Vietnam veterans Gene Shurtz, left, and Mike Redner lay a wreath at the Vietnam Peace Arch Memorial during the program.
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Christina Nguyen, of Toledo, packs up after the parade has passed. With her are her three children, Vy Lan, left in wagon, 2, and her twin Liem Nguyen, with their brother Khoi Nguyen, 5. At right is grandmother Patricia Jaeger, also of Toledo.
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The Delta High School band marches during the program.
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A member of the Zenobia Shrine Hillbilly Clan #75, Perrysburg.
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A Nike-Hercules missile, which was operational in the United States from the late 1950s until 1974, on one of the flotilla of vehicles from the Hancock County American Veterans Ohio Motor pool.
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Area Girl Scouts celebrating Memorial Day.
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The Polar Bear of Woodward High School gets a "high five" from Colton Jacobs, 2, of Toledo. Others in the family are the parents, father Corey and mother Karly Jacobs, and Harper Jacobs, 4.
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Janet Dombkowski, right, hands out flags to John Freyer, left, and his grandchildren Hailey Stiebens, 10, Morgan Leonard, 9, and Kayven Freyer, 9, all of Toledo.
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Elayna Wesolowski, 7, third from left, and her sister Amiya Wesolowski, 4, right, wait for the parade to begin with their grandparents, Ray Glass, left, and Mary Wesolowski, second from left, of Walbridge.
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Grand Marshall Major George R. Gordy, IV.
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MSGT Steve Kosinski, USMC, rtd., saluting the battlefield cross at the conclusion of the program. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first deployments from Perrysburg to Iraq, a deployment which saw 22 killed in action.
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Members of the Springfield High School Blue Devil Marching Band in the parade.
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The Start High School Marching Band during the Memorial Day parade.
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