Saturday, November 03, 2018, 09:00am - 12:30pm

About The Event

Veterans Day Parade- special salute to World War 1

The Idaho World War 1 Centennial Commissioners will be driving a lead vehicle in the parade decorated to represent the World War 1 Veterans of the state of Idaho. The 2018 Boise Veterans Parade Theme: "A Special Salute to WWI Veterans - a war that changed the world." Even though the war ended a century ago, soldiers who died there still deserve their moment of remembrance. 

The 2018 "Posthumous" Grand Marshal is Idaho Doughboy and AEF Army Sgt Earl Lewis Hurt originally from Eagle, Idaho and assigned to the Tank Corps. Deployed to France in 1917, he made it to the Armistice and returned home to Boise to marry and raise a family. He died on June 22, 1972 and was buried in Dry Creek Cemetery.

Contact : idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events