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102nd annual Memorial Day Parade replaced by patriotic convoy and dinner; watch last year s event here!

102nd annual Memorial Day Parade replaced by patriotic convoy and dinner; watch last year’s event here! Updated 9:41 AM; Today 8:00 AM Lee Covino waves to the crowd in the Memorial Day patriotic convoy as it lined up along Forest Avenue on May 25, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/Jason Paderon) Jason PaderonJason Paderon Facebook Share In an effort to spread awareness about the real meaning of Memorial Day and build on last year’s success, parade organizers have once again converted the annual event into a “Patriotic Convoy,” explains Lee Covino, treasurer of United States Veteran Organization, Inc. The patriotic presentation is Monday, May 31, and will start at noon at Forest Avenue and Hart Boulevard in Randall Manor.

Teapot Dome scandal had New Mexico roots

.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Albert Fall, a former New Mexico state Senator who went on to become U.S. Secretary of Interior, played a central role in the Teapot Dome scandal a century ago. (Source: Library of Congress) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal It has been 100 years since little-noticed, no-bid oil leases in Wyoming and California were engineered by then-Secretary of Interior and former New Mexico Senator Albert Bacon Fall, sending Fall to jail and rocking a presidency. The story reads like a film noir script: a cabal of wealthy oilmen hand-picking a presidential candidate, bribes, bags of cash, a murder-suicide, and a muckraking Albuquerque journalist, all amid the flow of Prohibition liquor and the whiff of Cuban cigars.

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