David and Theo Johnson carrying the colors
Clara Johnson invited Army Vet Tom Stone and Navy Vet Darrell Illian to ride with her and grandson, Jasper Johnson.
Dean Harris and four other Veteran Christian Motorcycle Assoc., members showed up. Dean is a good friend!
Grand Marshal Joe Hudson, a Green Beret Special Forces veteran.
Gary Koopman loves his 1941 military Dodge WC half-ton carry-all. With Gary are veterans Gary Fleck, Marine; Don Meek, Army; and Sammy Facey, Army and recipient of Purple Heart.
Etna Lions Club trailer full of veterans.
Announcer Scott Murphy talks to Army veteran Randy Steinbeck.
Jennifer Bray served in the Navy. She is with her daughter.
Lynn and Tim Grenvik of Greenview. Tim served in the Air Force and much later as the Siskiyou Co. Veterans Service Officer. Lynn is supervisor of nurses at our local hospice. Both are great people!
The curb on Main Street gets quite tall. Makes a great (cold) chair for the crowd. Etna's business district is one block long, but does slip-over on both ends with a few businesses -- Denny Bar restaurant on the South and the Library on the North.
Yay for the Jackson Street Jr. High Marching Band!!!! They are from Yreka.
Ryck Kramer and his grandkids on his well-used Kabota tractor loaded with gandkids. Ryck served as an aviation mechanic in the Army before Vietnam and was stationed in Libya in North Africa.
Marine Fred Scott, Quartz Valley, served in Vietnam. Riding with him is his daughter, Cara Ravenscroft, and cute little dog.
Navy Veteran Mason McCoy is from Yreka. He is driving his 1953 Chevy Suburban with a State of Jefferson double XX logo.
Ray Haupt is our Dist. 5 Siskiyou Co. Supervisor. He rode with Air Force vet Tim Grenvik.
eteran and Etna High School grad, Larry Maplesden, brought his mom, Carol, along for the parade.
Kelly Giradano, from the Siskiyou Co. Sheriff's Dept., drove the Sheriff's HumVee. She had last year's Grand Marshal Dave Harrison as a passenger. He is below.
Siskiyou Co. Reserve Deputy Jim Jacobson drove the 1989 DARE Camero, below.
Back Country Horsemen -- this year was all horsewomen! -- like to participate.
Cliff Lantz, Army veteran - Korea - with the Scott Valley Rotary Club's teen Inter-act service group.
Etna FFA member, Troy Thackeray, is the only one to look at the camera. Yep, Troy is cute!
The local owners of old, rustier-the-better, Dodge Brothers cars love the Veterans' Parade.
Lisa Theofanides sold baked goods for the Scott Valley Resource Center.
The Siskiyou Mt. Men and Women love any chance they get to show off and blast their muskets!
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