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Loyalty Day Parades Draw Thousands Across Nation
AP reports crowds across the United States marking Loyalty Day with Veterans of Foreign Wars parades. In New York City nearly 7 000 on Fifth Avenue and 4 500 in Brooklyn joined tens of thousands of spectators. Nationwide VFW predicted about six million participants in 5 800 local parades. Events included Newport Oregon races and sea shows, Cincinnati youths pledging law support, Chicago rain dampening 600 to 700 marchers, and antiwar demonstrations in New York and San Francisco with up to 300 000 marchers claimed by organizers.
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