My dad used to talk about seeing Civil War vets in open-top cars at the parade (Armistice Day? Memorial Day?) back in his birthplace during the 1920s. He said that was the furthest back memory he had, but I think he botched it a little. He said his Mom was pregnant with her second son and went into labor right there (2 months early), but there was only 2 years difference between him and his brother, so I wonder if he's conflating some stories. I think it might have been his 2d brother, who was 5 years younger than him.