The veteran is blessed to be alive to see this day after receiving numerous honors including the Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan that left him wounded.
The Veterans Day Parade of about 2,000 vets, plus tanks, trucks and floats, takes place Sunday, Nov. 5. A 9:45 a.m. ceremony takes place at IBEW Local 58, at 1358 Abbott Street in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood.
Marine Corps League Auxiliary membership is open to a wide range of female relatives of a current or former Marine or a U.S. Navy Fleet Marine Force corpsman or a FMF Navy chaplain. Women Marines are eligible also, although there is a separate Women Marines Association. Other women may join as associate members.