Ponca City, Oklahoma is a typical American small town in noth-central Oklahoma (pop. ~25,000). On Saturday, November 10th we honored our veterans with a parade. Following are a few images I thought you would enjoy
 Boy scouts arrive early to one of several areas to prepare for the parade. |
 More boy scouts... They were everywhere and it was a welcome sight. |
 A disabled veteran awaits the start of the festivities. |
 Boy Scouts hand out American flags to the spectators. They made sure everybody had at least one. |
 Even those servicemembers who were not participating in the parade wore their uniforms. |
 CBS News visited Ponca City. They stated Dan Rather would be doing a story on small town America on the Monday evening news show. |
 A WWII Veteran. |
 US Navy Color Guard |
 WWII Color Guard |
 19 WWII veterans were honored for their duty by finally recieving their high school diplomas. All 19 were called to duty before they could complete high school. A stage was set up for the heros to walk across and recieve their somewhat delayed diplomas. |
 A WWII era military vehicle |
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 The parade was puncuated by several fly-overs from multiple WWII era aircraft. The sight and soud was awesome |
 As you can see the planes were flying quite low |
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all images property of john b strickland ii
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