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Two Happiest People at the Memorial Day Parade Identified: A Firefighter and the Woman He Proposed To

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An Air Force flyover wasn’t the only surprise at Darien’s Memorial Day Parade on Monday: Noroton firefighter Keith Bennett kneeled down on the Post Road near the end of the marching to propose to Marley Bykowski. Reader, she’ll marry him.  

Bennett, a Noroton Fire Department lieutenant who rides on Engine 32, was on the near the official grandstand, on a stretch of the Post Road between the Garden Center of Darien and Nielsen’s Florist when he broke ranks, got on one knee and popped the question to Bykowski.  

Bennet’s father, Ron Bennet (also a firefighter in the department), looked on.

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Darien’s Memorial Day Parade for 2018: You Can’t (Always) Tell the Players Without a Program

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Darien’s 2018 Memorial Day parade steps off at 10 a.m. sharp on Monday, May 28 from Goodwives Shopping Center, turns right and travels on Old Kings Highway South to Brookside Road and then turns left onto the Post Road until it reaches the veterans cemetery at Spring Grove Cemetery. Here’s more of what you should know about the parade, the Memorial Day speaker and the grand marshal, along with some instructions if you’re among the marchers. About Memorial Day Speaker Patricia Parry
The 2018 Darien Memorial Day speaker is Patricia Parry, a Gold Start Mother. Her son, Navy SEAL Chief Brian Robert Bill, was killed in action on Aug 6, 2011 in Afghanistan when the helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, he was riding in was shot down. Pat is a Stamford native.