PHOTOS: Crowds attend Memorial Day Parade in DC

Despite persistent rain, crowds of people lined up along Constitution Avenue in D.C. Monday to watch the Memorial Day Parade. They were wearing rain slickers and carrying umbrellas to honor those who served and died.

The parade featured all the armed services, and high school marching bands 鈥� some from Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. Also, there were floats carrying family members of the fallen service members.

At Arlington National Cemetery, President Joe Biden lauded the sacrifice of generations of U.S. troops who 鈥渄ared all and gave all鈥� fighting for their country and called on Americans to ensure their 鈥渟acrifice was not in vain鈥� in Memorial Day observances.

See photos of the Memorial Day Parade below.

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Hundreds of people, some with American flags, lined up along Constitution Avenue in D.C. Monday to watch the Memorial Day Parade. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper)

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“We believe in serving our country, and being a support for those that do as well,” Rose Schultz from Bristow, Virginia, told WTOP, adding that her husband, his father and her brother-in-law went to the Naval Academy. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper)

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The parade featured all the armed services, and high school marching bands 鈥� some from Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper)

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The grand marshals of this year鈥檚 parade were former astronauts from the Apollo missions. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper)

Kyle Cooper

Weekend and fill-in anchor Kyle Cooper has been with WTOP since 1992. Over those 25 years, Kyle has worked as a street reporter, editor and anchor. Prior to WTOP, Kyle worked at several radio stations in Indiana and at the Indianapolis Star 太子探花paper.