HONORS ON TAP FOR VIET VETS NOV. 11 PARADE OVERDUE WELCOME.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer LANCASTER -- What started as a national parade last Veterans Day in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. to recognize and honor Vietnam War veterans Australia
The Antelope Valley . Vietnam veterans This article is about the French band. For veterans of the Vietnam War, see Vietnam veteran. The Vietnam Veterans were a six-person French psychedelic group that released six records in the 1980s. The band was praised by many alternative music publications. will lead a Nov. 11 parade organized by Vietnam veterans Gary Chapman Gary Chapman may refer to:
``It was very emotional,'' Chapman said of the Las Vegas parade. ``You'd see people on the sides crying. You'd see little kids standing on the sides saluting you. The people were probably 10 or 20 deep. They were all applauding,'' Chapman said. ``It was hard not to cry.'' Chapman, who was a 19-year-old Army helicopter door gunner A door gunner is soldier tasked with firing and maintaining manually directed armament aboard a helicopter. The actual role will vary depending on the task given on a particular mission. in Vietnam and now works for Pratt & Whitney in Canoga Park, added: ``We have a lot of vets out here. I'd like them to feel the same way we felt.'' The Antelope Valley Operation Welcome Home parade is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Nov. 11, running along Lancaster Boulevard from 10th Street West to Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Bands, floats and color guards are expected to participate, as well as military personnel, past and present. Organizers are trying to arrange a flyover by Air Force planes. A ceremony and entertainment will follow at Boeing Plaza, beneath a pedestal-mounted Vietnam era F-4 fighter jet. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3000 in Quartz Hill is a co-sponsor, with any funds left after operational expenses to go to the state veterans home scheduled to start construction next year in Lancaster. Antelope Valley Operation Welcome Home is scheduled to be formally announced next week with a ceremony involving Chapman and Santana, who was a Marine machine gunner in Vietnam and now is a professional photographer, as well as other participants and local officials who endorse the parade. The parade is intended to give a welcome to Vietnam veterans, who often were met with hostility when they came home. Organizers said it also is intended to help them deal with the emotions they still feel from the war and their treatment when they returned more than 30 years ago. ``Most Vietnam veterans won't talk about the war,'' Chapman said. ``They keep it inside themselves.'' The parade will be open to veterans from anywhere in the United States, not just the Antelope Valley. Veterans will be able to register at the parade Web site at www.avwelcomehome.com, though registration is not yet open. Organizers don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how many veterans will participate, though the interest they've seen so far makes them think it might become the largest parade in Antelope Valley history. ``It could be a few hundred. It could be 500. I just don't know. It depends on how much of the word we get out to the public,'' Chapman said. |
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