Pennsylvania is home to the fourth largest population of veterans, with many here in the Pittsburgh area, and while Veterans Day is next Tuesday, Pittsburgh is holding its annual parade, one of the oldest in the country, on Saturday.

One hundred six years after Pittsburgh's first Veterans Day parade, veterans from across Western Pennsylvania will march through Downtown, stepping off at 10th and Liberty at 10:30 a.m.

"I go to tears because it's just kind of like something that I feel proud of," said Joe Podolinsky, this year's commander.

It's a role he's honored to hold with the Federation of War Veterans Societies of Allegheny County, which puts on the parade, especially as they commemorate 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War.

"It was trying times in America, and some people frow

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