SINGAPORE: Over the years, the National Day Parade contingents usually reserve their salute for two individuals: The Prime Minister and then the ...
SINGAPORE: Over the years, the National Day Parade contingents usually reserve their salute for two individuals: The Prime Minister and then the President.
Absent were the thousands of spectators singing along to their favourite songs, and tanks and five-tonners rumbling past the National Gallery. Neither were there men and women with parachutes landing with a whoosh. Back at the Padang, the contingents marched in under the morning sun, wearing the usual smart white uniforms and matching white masks. They stood at least 1m apart, instead of the normal 0.5m.
Six F-15SG fighter jets soared in a tight delta formation over the Padang, their afterburners booming in what organisers called a “roar of unity”. These jets would also go on to make tribute passes around eight hospitals.Ms Nirmala Nair, a head nurse at Ang Mo Kio polyclinic, said it was an honour to attend her first ever National Day Parade and receive the salute.
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