Petaluma’s 40th Veterans Day Parade celebrates nation’s 250th year

Kaden Rodriguez, 4, watches at the annual Petaluma Veterans Day Parade with his grandparents Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026 in downtown Petaluma. (John Burgess/The Press Democrat) By Argus-Courier StaffPUBLISHED: November 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM PST | UPDATED: November 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM PSTGetting your Trinity Audio player ready...For the 40th year in a row, Petaluma hosted the region’s largest, proudest and most patriotic parade. World War I reenactor Alonzo Chattan waits for the start of the annual Petaluma Veterans Day Parade Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026 in downtown Petaluma. (John Burgess/The Press Democrat) The Veterans Day Parade and Flyover, held Wednesday in downtown Petaluma, began with a drizzly day that gave way to sun as the parade’s grand marshal, Andrew LeMarQuand, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1929, led the procession down Kentucky Street and back up Petaluma Boulevard amid cheers, shouts and waving American flags.

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