Parade participants march in the 58th annual Memorial Day service and parade at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago on May 30, 2022.
Members of the Edgewater Baptist Church were in attendance, enjoying the lawn chairs provided by residents of the block for the annual event. Krista Muscat, deacon of the Benevolence Fund at the church, says a contingent from her church have been going for the past decade.Parade participants and honor guard march down Chicago streets as hundreds of spectators come out for the 58th annual Memorial Day service and parade near Rosehill Cemetery on May 30, 2022.
The parade — which featured members of the local Scouts troop, dozens of members of the Lane Tech High School ROTC Warrior Battalion and Daughters of the American Revolution Culper Ring Agent 355 Chapter — wound its way from West Rosehill at Clark Street through the stately limestone entrance to the cemetery. They marched down lanes lined with 180 American flags, placed with the help of 30 students from ASPIRA Early College High School in Avondale.
But after the recent mass shootings in the nation, he said he found himself wondering: Is this the America that these brave men and women have died for? Is this the America that they believed in? American veterans are not a monolith, we are individuals that decided we wanted to serve. And ... for anyone who served, it is a service that continues on. We’re a community of individuals trying to serve our community, and no one gets things done better than an American veteran.”
“All us veterans took an oath to defend this country to all enemies, foreign and domestic, and ladies and gentlemen, that oath does not have an expiration date,” he said.