St. Patricks Day in New York!!!
The 251st annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, the celebration of Irish/American heritage, marches down the Queen of Avenues under chilly grey skies.
That's right, the Parade has been a New York tradition since 1762--that older than the USA Declaration of Independence in 1776, but started just a few years after Guinness Beer was founded in Dublin in 1759!
The parade highlights always include the Fighting 69th Regiment and the New York City Fire Department among hundreds of other bands and Irish Societies.
A sea of 343 American Flags--one represneting each FDNY member killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, marches by carried by the Fire Department.
Many Overseas groups and bands joined in the festivities--here one from the Brittany region of France, Celtic after all...
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