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"It's a good cause because of their sacrifices and what they have done for our country," said Abel Sanchez Jr., a parade marshal whose late father served in World War II.
Despite the enthusiasm of the participants, it was a low-key celebration that had Lt. Col. Wallace Levin, a 79-year-old Korean War veteran and parade organizer, thinking about the first time the event took place in San Francisco.
It was April 1919, he said, five months after the end of World War I, and troops marched triumphantly down Market Street to the cheers and applause of thousands cramming the sidewalks.
"Everybody in San Francisco was there that day," he said.
Sunday's parade - held three days before the official Nov. 11 holiday - was hardly like that.
Most spectators were coincidental onlookers who didn't know there was a parade scheduled for Sunday before they stopped to get a glimpse of the marching teenagers in their spiffy ROTC uniforms or the veterans waving to the crowds from cable cars.
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