Commerce City's Memorial Day Parade Featured 3 Grand Marshals
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (CBS4) - Commerce City honored Memorial Day with its parade on Monday.
More than 100 organizations joined the 1 ½-mile parade. This year the parade had three grand marshals -- Raymond Brionez, a World War II veteran; Homero Lopez, a Vietnam War veteran; and Arthur Saiz, who served 36 years in the Army.
For the folks along the route the parade was a way to honor all service members.
"Because freedom – a lot of people don't have it. I've met a lot of people from other countries that I've worked with and said it's different over there versus here even though it seems contrived over here," parade goer Brian Benzel said. "A lot of people think it's horrible, but if you live in a third world country they don't have the freedoms that we do."
For the Benzels it's a family celebration. The children's great-grandfather served on the USS Missouri and their grandfather served in the Korean War.