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Plaquemine’s annual Fourth of July celebration returns in full blast after a one-year absence due to the pandemic, and a longtime tradition linked to the bash will continue.
Historic Bayou Plaquemine will be the setting of the annual veterans parade to salute past members of the American military.
Veterans will ride along a fleet of boats in the parade that will be among one of the highlights for the event.
The parade will roll at 5:30 p.m. Spectators and participants are asked to arrive at 5 p.m.
The enthusiasm is high among organizers for the event one year after the pandemic forced cancellation of festivities.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)
One thing that has become incredibly apparent in recent years is that a certain portion of the population seems to be sincerely shocked to find out that white supremacists have decent paying jobs. Considering that we just had a white nationalist president only two seconds ago, it shouldn’t come as too much of a shock that the online database for a neo-Confederate group revealed that its members included elected officials, professors, and service members.
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Please, hold your shocked gasps.
According to the Guardian, an anonymous hacktivist took advantage of a security exploit in the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) website and found that of the 59,000 former and current members, 74 registered with emails associated with various branches of the armed forces, and 91 used emails associated with government agencies.
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For Angela Maranville, director of knowledge access and resource management at West Virginia University (WVU) Libraries in Morgantown, the transition from working as a radio communications analyst in the US Air Force back to civilian life wasn’t the easiest.
“I left active duty in 1987 as part of the Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act. Basically it was peace time and they wanted to get people out to save money, so I left early and gave back double that time in reserves.” she said. “And when I came back to Illinois, there wasn’t work. So I kind of bounced around for about 15 years doing odd jobs. I worked with horses, I was an underground coal miner, I did a little bit of everything.”
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