In New York City, Occupy demonstrators held a Veterans Day march through Lower Manhattan on Friday. The march ended at Civic Center Park, where a number of musicians, including Joan Baez, performed.

Joan Baez, musician: “Let’s drink. Let’s drink to the lowly of birth, spare a thought for the rag-taggy people. Let’s drink to the salt of the earth. Let’s drink to the hard-working people. Let’s drink to the salt of the earth.”

Numerous veterans spoke out against war and declared their support for Occupy Wall Street. Iraq War veteran, Sgt. Shamar Thomas, described the conditions veterans face when they return from service overseas.

Shamar Thomas, Iraq war veteran: “To come home to a nation where they don’t have a job automatically set up, to where, you know, they have Marines getting $1,900 to fight in a war, when congressmen and politicians are making six figures, it just shows how much respect this country has for the veterans. And we should be doing a lot more.”