COPPEROPOLIS - This tiny town in the Sierra foothills showed big love Sunday for its military veterans.
The
Veterans Day Parade that rolled south on Main Street at 1 p.m. is the
first in Copperopolis, say longtime residents. But it won't be the last,
said Charity Maness, the mother of a military veteran and one of the
lead organizers of this year's parade.
"Hopefully, it will get bigger and bigger every year," Maness said.
The parade reflects that veterans in
Copperopolis are more organized. In February, dozens of them formed
James D. Piper Post 12118 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Post members
served during conflicts stretching from World War II and Korea to
Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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