The parade started at Civic Center Park and went down 14th Street to Court Place then to 15th Street and Welton Street east to 17th Street then south on Broadway to 14th Avenue.

Some RTD bus routes downtown were detoured during the parade.

Just after the parade, there was a tribute to fallen Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans from Colorado at the Colorado Veterans Memorial.

There was also a presentation of a Bronze Star for valor to the wife of Staff Sgt. Wesley Hunter.

Despite numerous injuries from an improvised bomb blast, Hunter single-handedly repelled an ambush in northwest Baghdad in Iraq in February 2006. He eventually died of his wounds last September.

"I'm really happy that we have this for the kids to be able to look at later to be proud of. They're already so very proud of him and to have this is just something else that they can look at and know their dad was special," Hunter's wife Rayanne said.

Hunter is buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery. He spent several years in the Colorado National Guard and left behind his wife, a son, Westlin, and a daughter, Tavie.

The city and county of Denver has held its Veterans Day Parade since 1942.



A fireworks display was launched from Union Station in Downtown Denver on Saturday night following the Forgotten Heroes presentation by Gov. Bill Ritter and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.