Attached are pictures from the National Veterans Day Parade in Birmingham, AL.  Vern Miller, president of the George S Patton, Jr Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge had the honor of riding in the parade in a WWII Jeep restored by Ronnie Guin, a VBOB member, and of being represented in the parade by WO4 Mike Hipwell, Fort Rucker, AL a helicopter pilot and a WWII Re-enactor. who returned a month ago from his tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Vern was honored to have Mike wear his 8th Armored Division shoulder patch and didn’t mind the ribbing he took because neither he nor Mike could come up with a set of T-3 stripes — so he was demoted to buck private.

L to R Max Herrington, 5th Inf Div; Vern Miller, 8th Armrd Div; & Jack Mullins, 752nd FA Bn, pose before mounting their parade vehicles.