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PHOTOS: Tewksbury Memorial Day Parade

Music, patriotism, pageantry and more than a few water ballooons.

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Thousands of people lined Route 38 on Monday for the annual Memorial Day Parade.

The event featured eight bands, floats, historic re-enactors, hundreds of children, political leaders and, oddly, dozens of water balloons.

Editor Bill Gilman was on hand and captured these images of the pageantry.

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