Bright skies and warm weather created picture-perfect conditions for the annual Emmaus Memorial Day Parade May 30. ABOVE: Members of the Emmaus Borough Council, including Emmaus Mayor Lee Ann Gilbert, center and Emmaus Borough Council President Brent Labenberg, right, are among participants in the annual parade.

Motorcyclists join marchers in the annual Memorial Day parade in Emmaus May 30.

Student musicians from the Emmaus High School Green Hornet Marching Band provide parade music. The annual parade forms at the high school and moves through Emmaus streets, weather permitting.

An honor guard leads the parade along Chestnut Street to the memorial monument at Third and Fourth streets for a memorial service May 30.

Press Photos by C. Richard Chartrand Honored veterans make their way along the parade route by truck.

The Emmaus High School Green Hornet Marching Band is a fixture in the annual Emmaus Memorial Day Parade. Other observances include ceremonies at each of the six cemeteries in Emmaus and a brick installation ceremony at the Remembrance Garden on the east side of Emmaus.