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Scrapbook: Veterans Day 1993 (8 photos)

By Gazette Staff Report | November 11, 2022

Orlando Papps, from left, Edward Kiernan and Tiny Jackson, members of the Veterans of Overseas Service of America, fire a salute outside City Hall. — PHOTOGRAPHER: File Photo

Orlando Papps, from left, Edward Kiernan and Tiny Jackson, members of the Veterans of Overseas Service of America, fire a salute outside City Hall.

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SCRAPBOOK – This year’s Veterans Day parade in Albany will be held today — Veterans Day — stepping off at the corner of Central Avenue and Ontario Street at 11 a.m.

The parade was first held in 1952. A special Capital Region Scrapbook page today looks back at local Veterans Day ceremonies from 1993.

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Howard Fox, grand marshal of the 1993 Veterans Day Parade in Albany, salutes his fellow veterans GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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Orlando Papps, from left, Edward Kiernan and Tiny Jackson, members of the Veterans of Overseas Service of America, fire a salute outside City Hall.

Virginia Sweet, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and a WASP pilot during World War II, speaks to people inside Schenectady’s City Hall on Nov. 11, 1993 — Veterans Day. Sweet delivered the main address.GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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Scrapbook is looking for some identification assistance: The kids were wearing green and white uniforms, and our researchers originally thought Schalmont or Shenendehowa, but reps from both schools could not claim the crew as their own. If you have a clue, contact Jeff Wilkin at [email protected] FILE PHOTO
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A high school band marcher leads her musical colleagues (far right) during Albany’s 1993 Veterans Day parade.GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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Two mounted Albany police officers escort a jeep during the 1993 Veterans Day parade in downtown AlbanyGAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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veterans and their boosters stand next to American flags in Schenectady’s City Hall on Nov. 11, 1993GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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A sharp-dressed man entertains during the salute to veterans in Albany. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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