Photographer Jeffrey Hammer writes: “I am deeply grateful to our town’s employees for annually creating a simple, solemn and stately monument to the dignity, grandeur and majesty of Memorial Day — one we enjoy long after the festivities have faded away.”
Westport’s favorite Minute Man, Miggs Burroughs. (Photo/Duane Cohen)
Westport’s RTM — one of only 6 in the state — takes to the streets. (Photo/Kristin Mott Purcell)
Astrid waves to the Sunrise Rotary Club’s giant duck. (Photo/Jodie Brooke Aujla)
The next generation of marchers. (Photo/Erin Hall)
Combined Bedford and Coleytown Middle School bands, led by Jim Andrews and Lou Kitchner. (Photo/Jodie Brooke Aujla)
More young athletes. (Photo/Eve Potts)
Identical twins, having twice as much fun. (Photo/Marcia Falk)
Not interested in her first Memorial Day parade. (Photo/Erin Hall)
Proudly she waves. (Photo/Duane Cohen)
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Branford, Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, Waterford, and Westport