EASTON, Pa. – The streets of downtown Easton were buzzing with parade-goers on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n
The city hosted its annual Memorial Day Parade and ended with a ceremony that included its sister town across the Delaware River.<\/p>\n
“I’m just here for Memorial Day to remember the soldiers,” said 7-year-old Logan.<\/p>\n
Remembering, honoring and mourning the fallen service members, as the city filled with residents of all ages.<\/p>\n
“I was a teenager during Vietnam War. I didn’t want my big brothers going to war,” said Michele Tanzella of Easton. “And now I’ll cry.”<\/p>\n
Longtime resident Tanzella and furry friend Lula have never missed a Memorial Day parade.<\/p>\n
“I come {for} my dad, really, because he never missed it. He was a World War II vet,” said Tanzella.<\/p>\n
Logan also had the event circled on his calendar.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been here a lot. This might {be}, I think, my 15th time,” said Logan.<\/p>\n
“This is my first time coming,” said 9-year-old Aurora Sistrunk. “It’s honoring my father, because he was in the Navy.”<\/p>\n
For new visitors like Sistrunk and her father Tyrone, waving, cheering and listening to the Easton Area High School and Easton Middle School marching band echo through Northampton Street, leaves a mark.<\/p>\n
“God bless our great nation for doing things like this to honor the heroes that have fallen,” said Tyrone Sistrunk.<\/p>\n
Community leaders, veterans, and first responders also played their part in the parade that ended at Riverside Park, with a ceremony.<\/p>\n
“Seeing all these cool-like trucks and seeing people love America,” said 11-year-old Eliza James.<\/p>\n
Phillipsburg, New Jersey leaders crossed the Free Bridge and joined in on a ceremonial tossing of a wreath into the Delaware River, a 21-gun salute and the playing of Taps.<\/p>\n
The event concludes a weekend of Memorial Day events downtown. Many residents also participated in a 5K run and a community bike ride.<\/p>\n
“They gave the greatest sacrifice. We got at least pay our respects,” said Tanzella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – The streets of downtown Easton were buzzing with parade-goers on Memorial Day. The city hosted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,5503,524,2181,89278,18659,2733,27412,6554,88333,2349],"class_list":["post-202169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-ceremony","tag-community","tag-easton","tag-fallen-service-members","tag-honor","tag-marching-band","tag-memorial-day","tag-parade","tag-remembrance","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}