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The Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade is Back for 2022!! Just show up with friends and family on May 30 at 10:00 am. Wave your American Flag and enjoy Kennett Square as we bask in our Freedom. Please support, sponsor and attend our patriotic hometown parade to honor our U.S. military personnel who died while serving with devotion, loyalty and commitment in the United States Armed Forces to keep the freedom we all enjoy together !
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KENNETT SQUARE — Thousands of people united in the borough on Memorial Day in celebration of American veterans. For the first moment in three years, the Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade returned and the large crowds cheered with support as the procession moved by on the warm spring holiday. The parade began at 10 a.m. with the procession departing from Kennett High School north on South Union St. to East Cypress St. to Broad St. then west on State St. and
right on North Union St. with a final destination of Union Hill Cemetery, where a ceremony honoring veterans took place. The first Kennett Square Memorial Day parade was held in 1948. “For me, the importance of honoring our American veterans is to pay tribute for the ultimate sacrifice they gave while serving the USA in our armed forces,” said Chief of Police William Holdsworth of the Kennett Square Police Department. “Far too often we get consumed with our day-to-day
responsibilities and the challenges life puts in front of us.” The chief continued, “We then tend to forget the incredible number of veterans who have died while protecting and preserving what we at times take for granted these days.” On Monday, Holdsworth led the parade procession as it traveled through the borough. The procession featured more than 100 separate units from karate schools and Boy Scouts troops to marching bands from Unionville and Kennett. People held and waved American flags in abundance. The 2022 special communinty event for American veterans featured two grand marshals, Edward Fourney and Alfred “Ray”
Coe. Edward Fourney served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War from 1952 to 1954. He is the recipient of the National Service Medal. When asked by the Daily Local News why he served, Fourney responded with a simple yet poignant answer. Alfred “Ray” Coe served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. When asked what his greatest lesson was from his days while serving
in the Army, Coe reflected, “Be prepared for anything.” “If you find something that you feel proud of doing, you’ll always be able to keep going,” Coe said of his greatest life lesson. “Life isn’t as good if you don’t have something to give back, something you enjoy doing.” Coe has been a Boy Scout leader for more than 30 years with Troop 31 of Chadds Ford. While serving overseas, Coe nearly lost his life on multiple occasions. “I had just missed getting killed three or
four times by then,” Coe said. “And I prayed to God, ‘Get me out of here — I’ll do anything.’ And for years I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do — what I wanted Him to do — what He wanted me to do — and finally all of a sudden, I put my son in Boy Scouts, and a light went on in the closet. ‘This is what I should do!’ And I’ve been doing it ever since.”
“Because it’s my country,” Coe said.
Community holds remembrance celebration with triumphant return of Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade. (JEN SAMUEL — MEDIANEWS GROUP)
State Rep. Christina Sappey, D-158th of West Bradford attends the Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade on Monday.
Alfred "Ray" Coe served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
Alfred "Ray" Coe served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
Edward Fourney served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War from 1952 to 1954. He is the recipient of the National Service Medal. He awaits the start of the ceremony honoring veterans in Kennett on Monday, alongside his grandson, Will McClafferty.
(JEN SAMUEL — MEDIANEWS GROUP)
The Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade drew thousands of people to the borough on Monday.
Community holds remembrance celebration with triumphant return of Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade. (JEN SAMUEL — MEDIANEWS GROUP)
The Kennett Square Memorial Day Parade brings thousands of people to the borough on Monday. (JEN SAMUEL — MEDIANEWS GROUP)
Jen Samuel is a writer with experience in journalism beginning as a beat reporter for the Avon Grove Sun in 2006. Press awards won include investigative and First Amendment reporting. An out-of-the-box thinker who helps people and communities with a compassionate heart, while taking a break from journalism in 2014, Jen worked with lawmakers in New Jersey to enact laws for the protection of endangered species including to protect elephants from extinction through the abolishment of ivory sales. Jen began working at the Daily Local News as a reporter on January 20, 2020.