HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — It still has all of the nostalgia, pomp and circumstance of your parents’ and their parents’ traditional celebration---the annual Veterans Day parade in Havre de Grace, which draws people from near and far.

“We came here to visit my son-in-law, my grandkids and my daughter,” said Steve NcNeill of El Paso, Texas, “and my son-in-law is in the parade and its was a pleasure to come out to see him and support him and the rest of the soldiers that were here.”

A city named after a French port by General Lafayette during the Revolutionary War and raided by the British during the War of 1812, organizers hope the role of veterans isn’t overshadowed in a country where politics has become so polarized.

“We need more of this,” said Jeff Thompson, a Havre de Grace native and the

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