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What better place for a Thanksgiving parade than Plymouth, Massachusetts, where it all started? The parade featured marching bands, pipe bands, classic cars and military vehicles, revolutionary and civil war re-enactors, floats and more. But the highlight were the Budweiser Clydesdales which have become as much a symbol of America as they are of the brand they represent. The only word that can describe these magnificent horses is "majestic".The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621.This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans (as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow) and 53 Pilgrims. Americans commonly trace the Thanksgiving holiday to a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast after a successful growing season. The holiday, as we celebrate it today, has been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.

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The Pirates are coming!

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A happy pirate

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Yo, ho, ho and a keg of rum!

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A lady pirate brandishes her rapier

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The renouned Hawthorne Caballeros Drum Corps from New Jersey

The Hawthorne Caballeros, sponsored by American Legion Post #199 in Hawthorne, NJ are in their 66th season of competition and have amassed a remarkable host of records. They have won the DCA (Drum Corps Associates) World Championship 9 times, the American Legion National Title 16 times, the National Dream Contest 17 times, and the New Jersey State American Legion Title 43 times. They have completed 5 undefeated seasons, consecutively in 1984 and 1985. They have placed in the top 3 placements at the DCA World Championship 31 times in 44 appearances, a clear indicator of the Caballeros consistency for excellence on the drum corps field. In 1989, during DCA's 25th Anniversary season, fans voted the Caballeros their favorite Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of all time.
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The Budweiser Clydesdales on parade

The Budweiser Clydesdales are a group of Clydesdale horses used for promotions and commercials by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. There are several "hitches" or teams of horses,[1] that travel around the United States and others that remain in their official homes at the company headquarters at the Anheuser-Busch brewery complex in St. Louis, Missouri,[2] or at Merrimack, New Hampshire.[3] At St. Louis, they are housed in a historic brick and stained-glass stable built in 1885. There are eight horses driven at any one time, but ten horses are on each team to provide alternates for the hitch when needed. Assorted Clydesdales are also used as animal actors in television commercials for Budweiser beer, particularly in Super Bowl ads.
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Here they come!

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The drivers and "Brewer", the Bud Dalmatian

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The Bud beer wagon-see below for the interesting history

The Budweiser Clydesdales were first introduced to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition. August A. Busch, Jr. presented the hitch as a gift to his father, August Anheuser Busch, Sr., who was guided outside the brewery by the ruse of being told his son had purchased him a new car, but instead was greeted by the horses, pulling a red, white and gold beer wagon.[ The hitch proceeded to carry the first case of post-Prohibition beer from the St. Louis brewery in a special journey down Pestalozzi Street in St. Louis
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Riding into Plymouth

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Riding into Plymouth

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Throngs of parade watchers hanging from the rafters

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The Clysdales pass a host of admirers

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Riding into the heart of Plymouth

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