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... More than 44 million people watch the parade on television each year ... No television stations broadcast the parade in 1940 or 1941, but when the parade returned in 1945 after the wartime suspension, so too did local broadcasts ... The parade began its network television appearances on CBS in 1948, the year that regular television network programming began ...
... The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S ... The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, with both parades four years younger than the 6abc ... EST on Thanksgiving Day ...
... Their performance resume for the past twelve years is as follows Fort Ligonier Days Parade 1997 to present November 27, 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day ...
... The marching band participated in the 2007 Alamo Bowl (San Antonio, TX), Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade (New York, NY), Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Philadelphia, PA), IKEA ...
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“Thanksgiving Day—A day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“It’s always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it’s always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.”
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—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
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—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)