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When the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade makes its way down Atlantic Avenue this Saturday, members of three veterans groups will be missing in action: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out. All have been told by parade organizers that they can’t be in the parade–technically because [...]

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It sounds fantastic when you think about it–fantastic like cities on the moon and flying cars–but the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade is an a-political event. And yet … .

The Press-Telegram reports today that three groups have been denied access to march in Saturday’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade. Those groups–Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Military Families Speak Out–were excluded from the parade because, organizers said, they did not “fit the spirit of the parade. The spirit being [...]