New York Veterans Day 2023 Parade: Livestream

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The Honor Guard marches in a Veterans Day parade.
The United States Honor Guard marches in the Veterans Day Parade in New York, Nov. 11, 2019. The Honor Guard performed in the parade to honor veterans and to inspire, recruit and retain future Airmen. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Noah Sudolcan)

The nation's largest Veterans Day event, the New York City Veterans Day Parade hosted by the United War Veterans Council, will return on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, for its 104rd year with nearly 20,000 participants from across the U.S. marching up Fifth Avenue.

The Army is this year's featured service for the event, which will run from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. between 26th and 47th streets in Manhattan. It will be broadcast live on WABC in New York, as well as live-streamed here on Military.com.

You may watch the parade live here starting Saturday morning.

Spectators can view the parade anywhere along Fifth Avenue from its step-off point, 26th Street, to its end on 47th Street.

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Commemorative dates that will be acknowledged in the 2023 parade include:

  • The 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War
  • The 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of combat units from Vietnam
  • The 40th anniversary of the Beirut Barracks Bombing in Lebanon and the Grenada Invasion
  • The 30th anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu (Somalia)

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Linnington, this year's grand marshal, is CEO of the Wounded Warrior Project. The organization, founded in 2003 to provide care items to hospitalized service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, today focuses on mental health, career counseling, long-term rehabilitative care and advocacy efforts.

Linnington's ceremonial naming took place on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan in March before an audience of veterans from all service eras and branches. Also present were dignitaries including James Hendon, commissioner of the New York City Department of Veterans' Services.

The UWVC ceremony also marked the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. At that time, then-Col. Linnington commanded the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), aka the "Screaming Eagles."

Linnington has held a variety of command and staff positions worldwide and received numerous awards and decorations.

"I am deeply honored to be chosen as this year's Veterans Day Parade Grand Marshal," Linnington said in a statement. "The 20th anniversaries of the War in Iraq and the Wounded Warrior Project call attention to the ongoing needs of veterans and their families who face a lifetime of visible and invisible wounds."

The 2022 grand marshal was Vincent W. Patton, the first Black master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard. He served in the Coast Guard's highest enlisted position from 1998 to 2002, when he retired after 30 years of active military service.

Every year, New York City's Veterans Day commemoration honors all eras of service and all service branches.

For more information, visit nycvetsday.org.

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