Norfolk’s veterans file past the village green. James Stoddard carries the American flag.

The roll call is read on Memorial Green. Reverend Olsen looks on.

This year’s Memorial Day parade was held on a perfect spring day. The fire trucks and ambulance were resplendent as usual, the cub scouts and brownies filed past with self-conscious solemnity, for the most part, and both of the featured trumpeters from the Northwest High School Band, who play Taps and its echo after the six-gun salute, were women.

Spectators along Route 44 in Norfolk watch as members of the horn section of the Northwest Middle School Band file past, at top.

The names of over two hundred veterans from Norfolk were read by Town Historian Richard Byrne at the ceremony. The memorial list is meant to include all members of the armed forces who served from World War I to the present.

Photos by Bruce Frisch.