On September 24, 2023, I posted a story on the Memories of San Antonio Facebook page about the Cavalcade of Stars parade through San Antonio in September 1943, raising funds for the war bond drive.

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“In carrying the war into enemy territory, we shall need greater amounts of money than any nation has ever asked from its citizens in all history,” Roosevelt announced in a July 26, 1943, proclamation ...