Many veterans and active military personnel were in the crowd, including a few who served in World War II.
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“I’m a native of Colorado and it’s always a pleasure to meet everybody on this special day and just go over our experiences that we had in the military”, explains Weiner.
“It reminds me that they still remember us, and that the public will still remember the need for us”, Holtel said. She’s not only marching, but is paying tribute to world war two veteran Herman cardoza who is being honored with the bronze star.
Vietnam veteran David Harris compared today’s celebration to when he came home from Vietnam.
Recalling his time as an infantryman during the Iran-Iraq War, Qassim shares, “I know it’s not right… to do this, but I have to. I feel proud that I could serve it, and I think everybody should serve a few time in the service because it’d really solve a lot of problems”.
Students showed up dressed in red, white and blue and carrying small American flags for Veterans Day at Cambridge Academy where a ceremony honored those who served in the military.
America-the land of the free-all thanks to the many fearless veterans and service members that have fought, are fighting, and will fight for our country and our freedom.
Mayor Mike Rawlings praised veterans and said the city needed to do to help and honor them.
Event planners say about 1,000 people attended today’s ceremony.
“It’s tradition, I came here to be with my brothers and sisters”, his brother Gordon Fox said, who served in the Marine Corps in the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1972.
As the names of their fallen comrades were read during the ceremony, several Vietnam veterans in attendance knelt down and gripped the stone wall dedicated in their honor with their heads bowed.
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Unlike veterans of other wars, Vietnam veterans did not have support from many of those at home.
