Holbert is executive director of the American Veterans Center. The group is organizing the 2012 National Memorial Day Parade, which will take place May 28 on Constitution Avenue in the District.

Can you tell me about this year’s parade? It’ll have thousands of participants, including many, many hundreds of active duty military personnel. The parade itself is kind of a moving timeline of American military history, so we’ll have reenactors of colonial, continental soldiers, fife and drum bands and so on all the way through to Civil War reenactors to World War II (where actual veterans will take part) to Korea, Vietnam and the present day.

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