Throggs Neck parade honors veterans
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, N 18 OV. 19-25, 2021 BTR
Rodney Faulk speaks to the post-parade
crowd at Bicentennial Veterans Memorial
Park. Photo courtesy Salvatore Ottaviano
Rodney Faulk hands a fl ag to a young
spectator. Photo courtesy Salvatore Ottaviano
At the 37th Throggs Neck
Veterans Day Parade on Sunday,
Nov. 14, Grand Marshall
Joseph Goonan, a U.S. Navy
and Army Reserve veteran,
led Bronxites from Lafayette
and Tremont avenues to Randall
Avenue, reaching the Bicentennial
Veterans Memorial
Park for a ceremony.
Rodney Faulk, the commanding
general of the U.S.
Johnnie H. Williams Jr., a Vietnam War combat veteran
and founder of Help Is On The Way For Veterans 1024
CORP, salutes for a photo.
Rodney Faulk and Joseph Goonan wave at the front of
the parade. Photo courtesy Salvatore Ottaviano
Army Reserve’s 99th Readiness
Division, the Army Reserve’s
senior geographic
commander for the northeastern
United States, delivered a
speech at the park.
“We consider our greatest
asset to be our people,” he
said. “Our all-volunteer Army
is a credit to Americans of
all races, genders and creeds.
Our common commitment to
defense and love of our country
binds us together and unifi
es us as a fi ghting force. That
goes to the heart of what it
means to be an American.”
-Aliya Schneider
From left, parade co-chair Ron Watson, a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Marine
Corps and Joseph Goonan pose with a framed fl yer announcing Goonan’s role
in the parade at a breakfast beforehand at the Throggs Neck Memorial Post 1456.
Photos Jewel Webber
Bronx Vet Center marchers wave at supporters.
Preston High School students hold their banner.
Photo courtesy Gabriela Del Valle