The Carbon County Veterans Day parade has been postponed because of the inclement weather forecast.

This year’s parade is hosted by the American Legion Post 314 and will be held in Lehighton On Nov. 16, starting at 2 p.m.

Showers are predicted throughout the day, with new precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Honorees

This year the parade grand marshals will be the American Legion Post 314 members of the Korean War Last Man’s Club: Leroy P. Goldberg, Robert D. “Bobby” Berger, Mahlon “Skip” Shaffer, Eugene P. Mermon, Henry B. Bisbing, Lee A. Fatzinger and William Rehrig.

The parade marshal is Army Corp veteran Sue Snyder.

The parade honoree is Chester G. “Chet” Frantz.

He was born in Palmerton in September 1925 and had one brother and sister. He grew up in Summit Hill during the Great Depression.

Frantz graduated from Summit Hill High School in June 1943 and shortly afterward received his draft notice. He was inducted into the U.S. Army at Cumberland, Pennsylvania. He then entered basic Training at Fort Benning, Georgia.

He was assigned to the 100th Infantry Division, 397 Infantry Regiment, 2nd Plt, HQ Co. His entry into WWII started with amphibious landing on a “duck” into Marseille, France, with a carbine as his weapon.

Frantz fought in the Colmar Pocket and Bitche, France. His regiment earned the nickname “Sons of Bitche” for capturing the town of Bitche. It was here that Frantz earned the Bronze Star Medal for assisting a medic in an open field to bring back wounded personnel during the night.

He then was at the Battle of the Bulge, where his division was holding a three-division line with just their division. One day Frantz had a close call when an artillery shell fired from the Germans exploded right above him while he was taking cover behind a tree. His helmet was blown off, but thankfully and by the Grace of God, he was unharmed.

When the war ended in Europe, Frantz was reassigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, 7th Regiment, as part of the occupation force.

Frantz returned home in 1946 and married his wife, and together they raised three children. He and his loving wife, Mildred “Mickey,” were married 67 years before her death.