Chicago Vietnam Veterans ‘Welcome Home’ 2011 Parade Planned

Much better than a collective forget you that echoes today in the voice of the neocons.

Just got this from Service and Honor, via Dan Cedusky’s excellent Veterans’ E-mail Newsletter, a 2011 Vietnam Veterans parade that will be years in the making.

– 25 year Anniversary of the Chicago Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Parade that took place in June of 1986 –

It will be a three Day event: June 11th Saturday, June 12th Sunday, June 13th Monday, 2011.  These dates are not locked in.

This is what was planned or being talked about for those days, and not in any particular order:

1) Art Show – pictures taken by Vietnam Veterans and their families during
the June 13th, 1986 Parade in Chicago – they will be CD’s or 11 X 14 photos.
These displays will be at the Vietnam Veterans Art Museum 1801 S. Indiana,
and a very good possibility at other venues in the City of Chicago and
surrounding Suburbs. Example: Oak Park, IL. Library, The Chicago Cultural
Center at Randolph & Michigan, and other areas to yet be determined.

2) A Dinner to honor Tom Stack, Gene Connell, Col. Plummer – who have since
passed but were on the executive committee of the Welcome Parade. To be done
at a major hotel in downtown Chicago.

3) A Concert at MillieumPark – with bands such as Dennis DeYoung. Lt. Dan
Band, The four Tops and others. This will be the Vietnam Veterans tying
together the Welcome Home of the Iraqi/Afghanistan Veterans, and passing the
torch to the next generation of Veterans, and the Never Again one Generation
forgetting the next Generation of Veterans.
*Now this might also take place at Navy Pier – it will depend on a lot of
things.

Nick
Iraq Arabic for Vietnam

or is it
Vietnam without water?