Vietnam Vets Event Axed For Glorious Leader’s Parade

The Washington Post reports:

Janet Zamora never had the chance to visit D.C. with her husband. They talked about it, longing to meander down the National Mall and see the Vietnam Veterans Memorial up close. But he was too sick to travel, she said, riddled with illness from exposure to Agent Orange during his five years with the Air Force in the Vietnam War. After he died in December, days after his 80th birthday, she applied for him to be part of a ceremony held at the memorial that annually honors hundreds of veterans who fought in the war and died after they came home. She’d go alone, for him.

Then she learned that this year the ceremony won’t take place at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial or even in the nation’s capital — for the first time since its founding more than three decades ago, organizers say. The ceremony is June 14, the same day dozens of tanks and thousands of troops will take part in a military parade through D.C., organized for the Army’s 250th birthday celebration and long championed by President Donald Trump.

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Why aren’t Vietnam veterans being honored this year at their own memorial, for the first time in three decades?

Because Donald Trump is using the space to throw himself a birthday parade instead. https://t.co/E4Jf3faUw2

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) May 28, 2025