Trump to open NYC’s Veterans Day Parade – first president to ever do so

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American Military News by  Cheryl Hinneburg November 06, 2019

President Donald Trump will make history as being the first and only president to open the New York City’s Veterans Day Parade on Monday.

Trump is scheduled to provide an address at the 100th Annual Opening Ceremony of the parade and will then lay a wreath at the Eternal Light Memorial at Madison Square Park, the New York Post reported. It is customary for the president to be formally invited to the event, but Trump is the first president to accept the invitation.

The parade is hosted annually by the United War Veterans Council.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said will serve as an honorary grand marshal for the parade and will lead a group of Marines up Fifth Avenue.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/11/trump-to-open-nycs-veterans-day-parade-first-president-to-ever-do-so/

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The 1995 NYC Veterans Parade Had $1.21 In The Bank. Then Donald Trump Stepped In
Daily Caller, Nov 6, 2019

President Donald Trump will lead New York City’s 100th annual Veterans Day Parade next week, becoming the first sitting president to accept the honor, the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.

But while Trump will be making history Monday as he attends the parade, an offer the United Veterans War Council has made to every president since 1985, his involvement as a citizen with the annual Veterans Day event dates back to 1995 when he saved the event from dire financial straits.

Less than three months before the 1995 Veterans Day parade, in mid-August, organizers had just $1.21 in the event’s bank account after receiving nothing from the 200 corporations, including military contractors, they had reached out to for financial support, The New York Times reported in 1995.

“Zippo, dada, zilch,” the 1995 parade’s executive director, Tom Fox, told The NYT. “Nothing from Northrup, United Technologies, none of them. To me, it’s a sin.”

It was at that point then-businessman Trump stepped in and saved the event by contributing between $325,000 and $375,000, parade organizer Vincent McGowan told CNN in 2016.

Trump’s contribution unleashed a windfall of donations to the parade’s organizers. While the parade’s budget was ultimately reduced from $2.9 million to $2.4 million, The NYT reported, the show was able to go on.

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Trump’s donation to help the 1995 parade followed a $1 million contribution he made in 1985 to help fund the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City.

As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump donated $1 million to the Marine Corps Law-Enforcement Foundation, a charity that provides educational services to the children of fallen Marines and police officers, CNN reported.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/06/donald-trump-saved-veterans-day-parade/

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Charlie Spiering 10 Nov 2019

President Donald Trump will honor Veterans Day on Monday by attending the kick-off of the famous parade’s 100th anniversary.

The United War Veterans Council in charge of the event announced the annual parade has always invited the President of the United States to attend and President Trump was the first to accept.

“This is a day when we put politics aside to focus on honoring our veterans and to recommit ourselves as a community to provide them with the services they have earned, the services they deserve and, for many, the services they were denied,” United War Veterans Council (UWVC) Chairman Douglas McGowan said in a statement.

The president and first lady flew back to their home in New York City at Trump Tower for the weekend after receiving a rock-star welcome at the LSU-Alabama football game.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/10/donald-trump-kicking-off-100th-annual-veterans-parade-in-new-york-city/

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