EVERY COUNTRY AND PEOPLE CELEBRATES TO BE FREE AND SINGAPORE IS NO EXCEPTION AS 50 YEARS TODAY MARKS ITS OWN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Sunday's Golden Jubilee National Day Parade was a melding of old and new. It was both a nostalgic look-back at Singapore's roots as well as a celebration of how far the nation has come in 50 years.
A sea of red and white filled the Padang, where the first post-independence National Day Parade was held in 1966. Some of the 26,000 people there began trickling in as early as 3pm and waited under the sun until the Parade started at 5.40pm.
As Members of Parliament filed to their seats, local pop quartet The Sam Willows kicked off the parade with a folksy rendition of 1998 National Day song Home.


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