Hoboken Memorial Day Parade
21
May
5/21/2008:
The city is gearing up for the 2008 Memorial Day Parade today. I believe it starts around 7:00pm downtown by City Hall.
There are dozens of no parking signs up along Washington between 10th and 11th Streets, and a trailer in front of the Elks Club, where the parade ends.
I thought the city was having a budget crisis? Issues with broken cop cars & potholes in need of repair?
21. bystander | May 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Emarche.
Go to city hall tonight at 6:30 and ask one of the veterans who organized the parade. Apparently, you have a problem with the parade today, let them know.
22. ShhhDontTell | May 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I love how many people are NOT able to make it to this parade. KTU doesn’t get to announce it and draw in all the drunks. No cars have to be removed. The old folks can bring a chair up and watch. ahhhh what a glorious parade this will be. Just like every year since I was a kid, and I’m old.
**Thanks to The Elks for providing the refreshments once again. Hopefully the weather holds up.
23. Foster | May 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
sure you COULD come on Monady, but you know no one WOULD come. So the Vets organize the parade during the week so the community can honor those in the service and those who protect the community every day. I don’t see anything wrong with the school kids learning about history and respect by marching in the parade. The parade also includes other community groups such as the Boy Scouts and the ELks…who honor the vets everyday. So…they have the parade on a day when they know those in the town WILL come instead of a day they know no one will attend.
It is a great parade. It starts at 7pm.
24. yellowsubmarine | May 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Foster wrote:
i agree-and lot of people like to spend memorial day in more somber respects like visiting graves, w/their fams, or at the VFW rather than a parade full of….well what a hoboken weekend parades bring..seems like it’s a tradition for the wed PM and people could make it a point to get there if they wanted.
25. Katie_Scarlett | May 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
yellowsubmarine wrote:
Only in Hoboken. I love how one town can warp so many. . .
26. sunflowerlax | May 21st, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Soooo if the parade is on Washington, what is happening with the buses?
27. escaped68 | May 21st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
The real memorial day is MAY31 not the 26th,it was changed for ‘convience” and now it weds. night. Next year run a contest of some sort and let the winner pick a memorial day. Remember the vets everyday not when it is convient.
28. zxcv | May 21st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Overheard on the sidewalk as the parade went by:
One 20something “alternative” hipster douche to another while watching the parade: “Jeez, I wish we had a bunch of beers to drink while watching this…”
29. homeworld | May 21st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Isn’t Memorial Day on MONDAY?
30. hobojoe | May 21st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
No, that would be “Memorial Day, Observed”
See what all this crazy scheduling nonsense has done to our country? People don’t even know when Memorial Day really is!
31. ShhhDontTell | May 21st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
If you are a Hoboken Veteran, a Hoboken Elk, employed by the BOE or the City of Hoboken, you know when the parade is. If you are a Hoboken resident, you should make it your business to know when it is. It was fantastic. And it poured.
Anyone who marched, or watched the parade, was invited into the Elks for refreshments. Hot dogs and soda.
I had to pass, hot dogs for dinner is not good. errrrrrp I hear they served over a thousand hot dogs.
32. Foster | May 21st, 2008 at 10:58 pm
it was fun! Those who knew and wanted to come had a great time. Those who weren’t interested and probably wouldn’t be interested if it was on Monday or any other day, kept on walking, yapping on the cell phone.
oh well. The bands were good and the little cheerleaders were very cute. It was announced that they came in first in the state. good for them!
33. BarefootBull | May 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 am
“I thought the city was having a budget crisis?”
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Check out the facts before making comments, assumptions, etc!
The Hoboken Memorial Day Parade is sponsored and organized by the Hoboken Joint Memorial Committee… you poor taxpayers can stop raining on the parade (no pun intended)… this has nothing to do with your tax payer dollars.
By the way, you ALL should check out Bystander’s link from comment #7: http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php
It was awesome to stand in the rain tonight, cheering for the young and old veterans who have, and continue to serve, this country. We are amazingly blessed… which is, I suppose, what irks me so much when people on this particular site complain about stupid things.
Trees, parking, open space- how and when a city honors its veterans… pretty minute problems in comparison to people over there (veterans who have been called back, like some of my relatives), and back home here, recovering from their physical and or psychological wounds… I don’t care when they have the parade, what time it is, what day of the week, and who is paying for it… if there was an admission price, I would be happy to pay it just to stand on the corner and express my gratitude.
34. DrDot | May 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
Nightmare for rush hour traffic. Why not just do it on MEMORIAL day like the rest of the country??
UGH!!
35. skateparkmom | May 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 am
Well said, BarefootBull
It was a terrific parade. I was happy to see so many along the way cheering the veterans. BTW, sunflowerlax, one of the busses were for some of the soaked Hoboken Marching Band, another for Hawthorne’s. Great job! You all sounded great!
36. yellowsubmarine | May 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
escaped68 wrote:
i actually think it’s May 30th.