Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol member John Joyce takes part in the honour guard as he participates in the city's annual St. Patricks Day Parade in San Diego, California, United States March 14, 2015. When you think of a police car patrolling the streets of a U.S. city, the first thing that comes to mind may not be an 88-year-old World War II veteran teamed up with a pilot from the Vietnam war – unless you are travelling through San Diego, California. The Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol, former airline pilots, paramedics or military personnel among them, spot stolen vehicles and help free up regular serving officers. In the process the unarmed recruits often get a new lease of life after finding a more sedate retirement didn’t suit them. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol administrator Robert Stewart (C) checks messages on his phone as he attends the city's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade with San Diego Police Officers in San Diego, California, United States March 14, 2015. When you think of a police car patrolling the streets of a U.S. city, the first thing that comes to mind may not be an 88-year-old World War II veteran teamed up with a pilot from the Vietnam war – unless you are travelling through San Diego, California. The Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol, former airline pilots, paramedics or military personnel among them, spot stolen vehicles and help free up regular serving officers. In the process the unarmed recruits often get a new lease of life after finding a more sedate retirement didn’t suit them. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol member John Joyce takes part in the honour guard as he participates in the city's annual St. Patricks Day Parade in San Diego, California, United States March 14, 2015. When you think of a police car patrolling the streets of a U.S. city, the first thing that comes to mind may not be an 88-year-old World War II veteran teamed up with a pilot from the Vietnam war – unless you are travelling through San Diego, California. The Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol, former airline pilots, paramedics or military personnel among them, spot stolen vehicles and help free up regular serving officers. In the process the unarmed recruits often get a new lease of life after finding a more sedate retirement didn’t suit them. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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(L-R) Aubrey Loots, Mina Meyer, Sharon Raphael and Danny Leclair pose for photographs at an AIDS Healthcare Foundation private reception at Twin Palms Restaurant in Pasadena, California December 27, 2013. Meyer and Raphael, lesbian couple who got married in 2008, will ride on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) 2014 Rose Parade float with Loots and Leclair, first same-sex couple to marry during the parade, on New Year's Day 2014, according to the AHF press release. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

(L-R) Aubrey Loots, Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael and Danny Leclair pose for photographs at an AIDS Healthcare Foundation private reception at Twin Palms Restaurant in Pasadena, California December 27, 2013. Meyer and Raphael, lesbian couple who got married in 2008, will ride on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) 2014 Rose Parade float with Loots and Leclair, first same-sex couple to marry during the parade, on New Year's Day 2014, according to the AHF press release. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Danny Leclair (L) and Aubrey Loots speak to a news reporter at an AIDS Healthcare Foundation private reception at Twin Palms Restaurant in Pasadena, California December 27, 2013. Leclair and Loots will become the first same-sex couple to marry during the Pasadena Rose Parade when they will ride on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) parade float on New Year's Day 2014, according to the AHF press release. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Danny Leclair (L) and Aubrey Loots pose during an AIDS Healthcare Foundation private reception at Twin Palms Restaurant in Pasadena, California December 27, 2013. Leclair and Loots will become the first same-sex couple to marry during the Pasadena Rose Parade when they will ride on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) parade float on New Year's Day 2014, according to the AHF press release. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn (UNITED STATES)
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India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers ride their camels as they rehearse for the "Beating the Retreat" ceremony in New Delhi January 27, 2013. The ceremony symbolises retreat after a day on the battlefield, and marks the official end of the Indian Republic Day celebrations. It is held every year on January 29. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA - Tags: TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY MILITARY ANNIVERSARY ANIMALS) 

Fans hold up the winning banner during the seventh inning of the New York Mets MLB National League game with the San Diego Padres at CitiField in New York, May 27, 2012. The Mets, after a 16-year absence, revived Banner Day, an annual tradition that began during the club's formative years at the Polo Grounds and continued at Shea Stadium through 1996. Each year, fans would create homemade banners out of bed sheets, then parade around the field with them, originally between games of doubleheaders. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL) 

Fans parade with banners before the start of the New York Mets MLB National League game with the San Diego Padres at CitiField in New York, May 27, 2012. The Mets, after a 16-year absence, revived Banner Day, an annual tradition that began during the club's formative years at the Polo Grounds and continued at Shea Stadium through 1996. Each year, fans would create homemade banners out of bed sheets, then parade around the field with them, originally between games of doubleheaders. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL) 

Fans parade past judges (R) with banners before the start of the New York Mets MLB National League game with the San Diego Padres at CitiField in New York, May 27, 2012. The Mets, after a 16-year absence, revived Banner Day, an annual tradition that began during the club's formative years at the Polo Grounds and continued at Shea Stadium through 1996. Each year, fans would create homemade banners out of bed sheets, then parade around the field with them, originally between games of doubleheaders. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL) 

Fans parade with banners before the start of the New York Mets MLB National League game with the San Diego Padres at CitiField in New York, May 27, 2012. The Mets, after a 16-year absence, revived Banner Day, an annual tradition that began during the club's formative years at the Polo Grounds and continued at Shea Stadium through 1996. Each year, fans would create homemade banners out of bed sheets, then parade around the field with them, originally between games of doubleheaders. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL) 

Fans parade with banners before the start of the New York Mets MLB National League game with the San Diego Padres at CitiField in New York, May 27, 2012. The Mets, after a 16-year absence, revived Banner Day, an annual tradition that began during the club's formative years at the Polo Grounds and continued at Shea Stadium through 1996. Each year, fans would create homemade banners out of bed sheets, then parade around the field with them, originally between games of doubleheaders. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL) 

Members of the media stand on the roof atop One Times Square as workers install some of the 288 Waterford crystals, featuring this year's 'Let There Be Friendship' design, on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball in New York December 27, 2011. Thousands are expected to pack Times Square on New Year's Eve to watch the annual ball drop at midnight marking the beginning of 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Workers add Waterford Crystal panels to the new year's eve ball in New York December 27, 2007. This crystal ball replaces one built in 1999 and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a ball drop in Times Square for New Year's Eve. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES) 

Workers add Waterford Crystal panels to the new year's eve ball in New York December 27, 2007. This crystal ball replaces one built in 1999 and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a ball drop in Times Square for New Year's Eve. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES) 

The members of Myanmar's military junta stand at attention during Armed Forces Day parade at the country's new capital near the town of Pyinmana, about 387 km (240 miles) north of Yangon, on March 27, 2006. Foreign diplomats received their first glimpse of the new capital, known officially as Naypyidaw or "The Royal City", since the junta announced the shock move from Yangon in November last year. REUTERS/Aung Hla Tun 

New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary (C), 83, one of the first two men to climb
Mount Everest, and his wife June (R) wave to the crowds while riding through
Kathmandu, May 27, 2003. Just as he did 50 years ago, Hillary rode through
the centuries-old lanes of Kathmandu in a horse-drawn carriage on Tuesday,
cheered by thousands of Nepalese crowding footpaths and clinging to temple
steps. About 450 Everest summiteers are in Nepal for the anniversary.
REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski Pictures of the Year 2003

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Madalenna Lai, a Vietnamese immigrant who sold her home in Fontana,
California to pay for a float in the Rose Parade on New Year's Day
2002, poses as the float is being decorated December 27, 2001 in
Pasadena. Lai undertook the float project to thank America for taking
her in as a refugee a quarter century ago. Lai said she and others in
the southern California Vietnamese community have been trying for eight
years to get their first float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in
Pasadena which is telecast to a worldwide audience. REUTERS/Fred
Prouser

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Madalenna Lai (R), a Vietnamese immigrant who sold her home in Fontana,
California to pay for a float in the Rose Parade on New Year's Day
2002, poses with her daugther Tiffany Nyguen on the float as it is
being decorated December 27, 2001 in Pasadena. Lai undertook the float
project to thank America for taking her in as a refugee a quarter
century ago. Lai said she and others in the southern California
Vietnamese community have been trying for eight years to get their
first float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena which is
telecast to a worldwide audience. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

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