Mar. 25, 2012
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DAVID CASTELLON
Post of colors by the Tule River Native Veterans Post 1987 and the Blood River Drum group and Joey Garfield of Native Blessing during the welcome home Vietnam Veterans Day program hosted by Central Valley Vietnam Veterans on Saturday at the Tulare Veterans Memorial building. Michael AlvarezA little rain didn't stop Valley veterans from honoring Vietnam War veterans Sunday in Tulare.
Plans were to hold the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans event at Veterans Park in Tulare, but with a strong storm approaching over the weekend, organizers arranged Saturday to move it indoors, inside the neighboring Tulare Memorial Building
Despite the rain, the event drew about 500 people — well above the 300 to 400 estimated to have attended last year in the park, said Kent McNatt, a Tulare native and one of the event's organizers.
Sunday marked the third year in a row that Central Valley Vietnam Veterans has put on the event in Tulare.
The event was organized to support a 2009 proclamation signed by then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger designating March 30 as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day" in the state. That date signifies the date the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam in 1973.
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