From staff reports
Beaufort County has invited the community to come out and say thank you to our veterans with a parade on Saturday, Nov. 11, in the City of Beaufort.
The Veterans Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m. in front of the Beaufort National Cemetery on Boundary Street.
From there it will continue down Boundary Street to Cartaret Street, turn onto Bay Street and end at the intersection of Boundary and Bladen Streets.
The floats and participants will begin to line up at 8:30 a.m.
This year’s Grand Marshal is Joan Petrucci. She will be in the lead car of the parade.
Petrucci is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and has lived and worked in Beaufort County as an active-duty Marine, municipal and county employee, adjunct professor for the Technical College of the Lowcountry and the University of South Carolina and as a 20-year employee of general contractor and construction management firm Strecansky & Company.
She graduated from Leadership Beaufort in 2003 and currently serves as President of the Parris Island Heritage Foundation.
“As veterans, we all took the oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. We have willingly stepped forward to our Nation’s call to duty and protected the unalienable rights of every American to always pursue life, liberty and happiness,” Putrucci said in a news release. “Let us take time to honor those who unselfishly gave of themselves so that the children you see around you will never have to live without a sense of pride for their country, their faith and their family. On this eleventh day of the eleventh month, I salute all veterans and I humbly offer thanks of the deepest measure.”
In case of inclement weather, the parade will be canceled.
For more information, contact Beaufort County Veteran Affairs at 843-255-6880.
