The boys were in the Dighton, MA Memorial Day Parade today. I sat in the car, I didn’t even take photos. That’s how it is some days.

Here are the things I saw: Two Rehoboth, MA Special Operations Hummv’s, in urban camo.

The Lions Club truck, with stuffed toy lions affixed to cab and grill.

A brigade of tractors, including one from 1942, noting FDR’s presidency.

It was not immediately clear if the Special Operations vehicles were on hand to deal with an uprising by the tractor-borne army of angry squash farmers of Rehoboth. It was not immediately clear why Rehoboth needed Hummvs while Providence seems to have none, and North Providence has closed fire stations. My best guess is that Rehoboth has someone better at tapping into federal homeland security and/or grant funds.

But the weirdest, saddest things were these: no Civil War reenactors in a Memorial Day parade, and the line of tractors that could appear to consign family-farm-based agriculture to a past as foreign as the Revolutionary War.