Today, people across the nation and the world gathered today to pay tribute to service personnel who have died during conflicts, past and present. If you know someone who has served or is serving, if you know the family of a service member, do not waste any moment.
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From that point forward, November 11 was set aside to celebrate Armistice Day, which became a legal holiday in 1938.
“There’s still hundreds of veterans who need help”, de Blasio acknowledged Wednesday before participating in the Fifth Ave. parade honoring the military.
“The Vietnam War was not a popular war, and when the veterans came back, they were not uplifted and supported the way they should have been then”, Whitmire said.
This year, however, city officials chose to honor a group of veterans who have waited decades to be formally thanked for their service – those who served in the Vietnam War.
“I made a promise to myself and to my fellow brothers and sisters to make sure they were never treated like we were”, said Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 607 President.
Andrew Willard is one of the more than 250 Vietnam War veterans still living in Georgia half a century later. So today, we’re taking time to remember and reflect on not just important legal and policy questions, but also those whose lives and work are often so significantly affected by them.
For the 15th-straight year, local attorney Michael B. Clayton hosted a Veterans Day celebration that included a parade, flag ceremony and barbecue for local veterans, their family and the community Wednesday. The city housed more than 400 veterans in the previous year.
The director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Regional office in Des Moines, Terri Beer, gave the keynote address and talked about the definition of a veteran.
“We did the ultimate sacrifice for this nation”, said Valentino Gatto of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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Beer promised that the Veterans Administration would continue working to serve the veterans who served and sacrificed for our country. Without you, the world would be a much more risky place.
