A D-Day veteran will be this year’s Grand Marshal for the annual Veterans Day Parade.About 124 organizations will trek down Western Boulevard beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 4.Fred Mezias, who hails from Bridgeport, Connecticut, was 18 years old when he joined the U.S. Navy in July 1943. Less than a year later Mezias found himself an Ocean away from home aboard the LST 516 off the bloody shores of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. His mission that day was [...]
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