Calaveras Enterprise reports in on Copperopolis Veterans Day Parade

Copperopolis hosts Veterans Day Parade
American flags and emotional shouts of “thank you” could be found along Main Street in Copperopolis Sunday as much of the community turned out for the first Veterans Day Parade, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign War Post 12118.

Robert M. of Valley Springs sat on a low brick wall just outside the Copperopolis Post Office along with many other onlookers, only he seemed to be part of the parade dressed in a World War I Doughboy uniform.

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Stockton Record covers Copperopolis Veterans Day Parade

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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