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Memorial Day parade to march on without Cecil Boswell
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Vance in his Navy blues during World War II.
Gainesville’s annual Memorial Day parade will have the same patriotic flair, from high schoolers marching with their band instruments and antique cars tooling down Green Street. But it won’t have Cecil Boswell. Every year, the World War II veteran would stride down the parade route in the same green uniform he wore when he was discharged from the Army and kept in his bedroom closet.