#The Grand Marshal for the 2023 Veterans Day Parade will be Charles J. “Chuck” Evans of Winnemucca.
#Ninety years young, Chuck has been a resident of Winnemucca for 50 years. He was born in California and enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1952.
#Chuck attended basic training at Camp Roberts, California, and then completed airborne training at Fort Benning, Georgia.
#After airborne training he was assigned to the 187th Airborne Regiment at Camp Chickamauga, Japan, which had just returned from deployment in Korea.
#Chuck volunteered for transfer to the 2nd Infantry Division and was immediately sent to the Korean Peninsula where he was involved in numerous combat operations.
#When the armistice was signed in July, 1953, Chuck remained with his unit in Korea until he was transferred back to the United States in 1954.
#He was then stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington until being discharged from active duty in February 1955.
#Chuck married his lovely wife, Shirley, in 1965 in Merced, California and in 1973 they moved to Winnemucca where Chuck worked as a butcher, farmer and miner until his retirement in 2000.
# Chuck is a life member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans.
#He served as Commander of the American Legion Post 5 in Winnemucca for 10 years and the VFW Post for five years.
# Chuck and Shirley have four children, and are well known members of our community.
#Please come see Chuck and Shirley at the Veterans Day parade, and thank a true American hero for his service to our nation.
#The parade will form up starting at 10 a.m. on Railroad Street and march out at 11:11 a.m. up Bridge Street.