November 11. The official parade passes our house (directly behind the flag; we live in the same block as the town hall). The man with the sash is our energetic young-ish mayor whose leadership has done so much. He and Simone had a long convo about how much we've loved living here for 20 years. She congratulated him on his work. The procession visited the town cemetery first and finally the town's memorial square, where La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, was sung twice, youth read poems in French and English, and there was a band and chorus. Deeply moving.