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In 1990 the Waltham American Legion Band marched in the Victory Day Parade in Moscow

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  • in 1990, the Dedham American Legion Post 18 Honor guard marched in Russia ahead of the Joseph F. Hill American Legion Post 156 Band during the Victory Day Parade. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff photo/Art Illman]
  • Russians lining the streets to see the Waltham American Legion Band in 1990. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
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  • Dot Hill leads the band down Gorky Street in Moscow in 1990. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
  • John P. {quote}Jake{quote} Comer, of Quincy, Past National Commander of the American Legion, takes a flower from a Russian citizen during the Victory Day Parade in Moscow in 1990. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
  • 11/22/19-- WALTHAM-- John P. {quote}Jake{quote} Comer, of Quincy, Past National Commander of the Amnerican Legion, in front of the Joseph F. Hill American Legion Post 156 in November 2019. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
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  • Mario Taricano playing on the 1990 trip to Russia. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
  • Mario Taricano, 89, before a band rehearsal Nov. 18, 2019, with the bass drum he played on the 1990 trip to Russia. He is one of two band members still in the band. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
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  • Bonnie and Marty Grady on their Natick front lawn in April. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
  • Father Nicholas Ciccone, Jr., left, playing cymbals with the Waltham American Legion Band in Russia in 1990. Today he is a hospice chaplain at CareOne in Concord. He joined the band in 1969 when he was a music teacher at Kennedy Middle School in Waltham. The band practiced at the school then, and Dot Hill convinced him to join the band and play the cymbals and glockenspiel. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
  • Rev. Nicholas Ciccone, Jr. today at his post at Ascend Health at CareOne in Concord, where he works with hospice families. He joined the band in 1969 when he was a music teacher at Kennedy Middle School in Waltham. The band practiced at the school then, and Dot Hill convinced him to join the band and play the cymbals and glockenspiel. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
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  • One of the many concerts performed in Moscow by the Waltham American Legion Band in 1990. [Daily News and Wicked Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
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  • Youngsters along the parade route in Moscow. [Daily News and Wickedd Local Staff Photo/Art Illman]
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