Members of the Dragoons of SCV Camp 1524 participated in the Millbrook Mardi Gras festival and parade on Saturday February 15th. Despite a misting rain shower first thing in the morning, a number of members showed up at Village Green Park at 7:30am to set up the camp's booth for the festival including a canopy, banners and tables to display all the items for sale and giveaways. Commander Grooms, Brigade Commander Waldo, 2nd Lt Karl Wade, Quartermaster Myrick, Treasurer Billy Leverette, Color Sgt John Dennis, new Communications Officer Eric Davis, and compatriot Darrell Haywood helped set up the booth to ready it for the opening of the festival at 9am. Mini-Battle Flags and Alabama Division educational posters and SCV literature were offered to passers-by for free and the camp had extensive stores available for purchase including car tags, ball caps, 3x5ft flags, lapel pins, patches, shot glasses, bandanas and totes emblazened with Confederate flags. At 11am Commanders Groom and Waldo departed for the parade lineup at Mill Creek Park. Commander Waldo's family participated riding in a Mardi Gras-apprpriately colored purple Dodge Charger flying Confederate flags and Commander Grooms drove his pickup truck onto which the camp's Mardi Grass banner was affixed. Compatriot Thomas Griffith walked with Commander Waldo handing out candy, hundreds of mini-Battle Flags and SCV coins. It was a fun successful Mardi Gras event and the Drgoons got the SCV and the Confederate flag out in front of all their friends and neighbors.
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