2020 Yorktown Veterans Day Parade

Sunday, November 8 at 1:PM 

Hello Yorktown! After much discussion and option exploration, we have just received permission to hold a "Reverse Veteran's Day Parade" on Sunday November 8 at 1:PM. PLEASE read the information and instructions carefully and share this info with as many folks as you can!

LETS HONOR YORKTOWN'S VETERANS TOGETHER!

Sunday November 8, 2020, 1-3PM: All Veterans and Veterans Groups (and their immediate family) assemble along Veterans Road 12:30 -1:00 PM.  Bring your banner. Please park in the professional building parking lot adjacent to the American Legion Hall. All veterans will social distance along South side of Veterans Road (and North side if necessary) between American Legion Hall and VFW Hall including Yorktown Nursery School. Please wear a mask. We will provide chairs but you may want to bring your own.
​Please RSVP.
Yorktown Citizens in cars will assemble and stage in rear parking lots of Acme and other Triangle businesses along Maple Hill Street across from Post Office from 12:30 - 1:00 PM. Decorate cars if you wish with flags and patriotic signs, etc. Please enter the staging area via the Maple Street/35/202/ entrance. (by Brookside Ave.) See map. We are limiting the cars to 200 as per YPD, so please contact us to RSVP. All scout groups and civic organizations are encouraged to participate.

Led by Police car (s) Fire truck (s) and Ambulances, the citizens vehicle parade will exit said parking lots onto Maple Hill Street and turn right onto Veterans Road, slowly passing and saluting our Veterans with horns, flags , etc., until exiting area at corner traffic light at Veterans Road and Commerce Street.

For more information please contact Paul Martin 914-980-5267 or prm3@hotmail.com

or visit our PARADE website at https://yorktownveteransdayparade.weebly.com/

or our facebook pages at "Yorktown Veterans Day Parade" or "Sons of The American Legion Squadron #1009"
Thank you. Please call with any questions
Sincerely,
Paul Martin
Chaplain, SAL Squadron 1009 and Yorktown Citizens Veterans Day Parade Committee
SAL Squadron 1009, Yorktown Heights, NY was Chartered on November 11, 2017. We are dedicated to honoring our Fathers or Grandfathers by supporting American Legion Post 1009 and ALL our Veterans!
SAL Squadron 1009's Charter was approved on Veterans Day, November 11, 2017 with 12 original Charter members. We have since been joined by new members and are looking for more patriotic and dedicated men to join our ranks.  Please contact us!

Induction Ceremony:   January  11,  2018

Monthly Breakfast Fundraiser!

November 2020: CANCELLED

Due to the recent rise in COVID infections in and around Yorktown over the past week, our SAL Squadron has made the decision to CANCEL this Sunday's Fundraiser Breakfast, November 15, to help keep our Post members and our community members safe. Thank you all so much for your past support. We hope to be able to rin our breakfast next month. Please watch this page for upcoming information.
 Join us for the SAL Fundraiser Luncheon at the Yorktown American Legion Hall.
All you can eat breakfast for only $8.00 Adults, $12.00 , $4.00 Children,
​under 6 FREE
with all proceeds benefiting local Veterans organizations!
​Come one, come️ all! Everyone invited and Spread the word to friends and family! Thank you!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for (usually) EVERY THIRD SUNDAY! 


​Sons of The American Legion Squadron #1009 
Hosts a Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser, once a month, usually the 1st Sunday, to Support the Following Veteran Groups 
Hudson Valley Honor Flight
United for the Troops
My Brother Vinny
Montrose VA Food Pantry
Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 21

Four Chaplains Ceremony:
February 2, 2020

Four Chaplains Ceremony
 2 PM Sunday, February 2, 2020    at
Yorktown American Legion Post #1009
235 Veterans Road, Yorktown Hts, NY
 
In February 1943, four US Army Chaplains on board a torpedoed and sinking troopship in the North Atlantic performed the ultimate act of sacrifice while helping their fellow soldiers that night.  One was a Rabbi, one a Dutch Reformed minister, the third a Lutheran minister, and the last was a Catholic priest.  Each served their country, religious beliefs, and fellow soldiers in a most inspiring way that fateful night.  The survivors of the attack that night told of the bravery and faith exhibited by these four Chaplains that night.
Our Yorktown Post will be honored again to have four prominent local clergy members joining us to celebrate this inspiring story.  Pastor Dan O’Brien of Calvary Bible Church, Rabbi Robert Weiner of Temple Beth Am, Rev. Christopher Chantelau of Grace Lutheran Church, and Rev. John Wilson from St Patrick’s Church will help us honor these men of faith during our ceremony.

This event is open to the Public.  Please come and join us.
Following the Chaplains’ Ceremony, our Post will conduct a short ceremony saluting those veterans lost in the past year transferring them to Post Everlasting.
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Photos above from previous ceremonies.
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