LIHUE — Charlene Dorsey, event chair for the annual Kauai Veterans Council Veterans Day parade, said it is important that we never forget veterans. Saturday, hundreds of people turned out to honor the Vietnam veterans, this year’s theme of the
LIHUE — Charlene Dorsey, event chair for the annual Kauai Veterans Council Veterans Day parade, said it is important that we never forget veterans.
Saturday, hundreds of people turned out to honor the Vietnam veterans, this year’s theme of the Veterans Day parade which returned to Lihue and provided a “homecoming for Vietnam veterans they never got” after serving our country.
Athena Abadilla, a senior at Waimea High School and a member of the Waimea JROTC program, made her debut as Miss Kauai Veteran, another program chaired by Dorsey, and was escorted by her father, Dan Abadilla, a veteran and retired from the Kauai Police Department.
Reviewing officer Brigadier General Bruce Oliveira delivered the keynote address, welcoming the Vietnam veterans and their families and friends, and commending them for never turning their back on the nation that turned its back on them.
