(Clearwisdom.net) On December 13 2003, practitioners in San Diego, California participated in the annual holiday parade at Pacific Beach and won high praise from the audience and organizers. Falun Gong won the two highest prizes of the event, including best entry overall.

Leading the Falun Gong procession was a banner written in Chinese and English "Falun Dafa". Next, it was the meticulously decorated float. The sides of the float read "Falun Dafa is good" and "The World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance".

Practitioners on the float demonstrated the exercises continuously. Following the float were six female practitioners dancing. The last section was composed of 20 practitioners playing waist drums. The Falun Gong possession was magnificent and peaceful. The practitioners showed the beauty of Dafa to the audience through different methods. The audience gave applause all the way. From time and time, some in the audience waved their hands to the practitioners and some pressed their hands together to greet to them.

Practitioners began to clarify the truth to parade organizers from the beginning of the application process and introduced the beauty of Falun Dafa to them, winning their understanding early on. The organizers gave Falun Dafa a good spot in the parade and also special permission to distribute flyers along the streets.