Kendall and Jessica Yarboro of Pilot Mountain were at Mount Airy's Veterans Day parade Wednesday to watch their son march with the East Surry band, but the day carried a deeper meaning for Kendall, whose father and grandfather both served in major American wars.
His grandfather, Coba Yarboro of Roxboro, was seriously wounded in November 1944 during the Battle of Metz in France, then part of Nazi Germany, where Gen. George Patton's Third Army eventually captured the city. Kendall said his grandfather fell into a foxhole with a dead German soldier and played dead to avoid capture. Coba Yarboro survived the war and carried shrapnel from the wound until he died in 1991; the 82nd anniversary of his wounding fell this month.
Kendall's father, Jimmy Yarboro, is a living survivor of the Vietnam War. The family watched the parade roll through downtown Mount Airy along with bands and groups from other local high schools.
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