For the 27th year a group of Lincoln veterans and supporters gathered at Memorial Stadium Tuesday morning for the annual Veterans Walk of Recognition. The nearly three and a half mile walk honors the men and women that have served our country.
Vietnam Vet William Duffield told KLIN News this event has special meaning for him. “I have four other family members who served in World War II and I do this walk for them, because they’re gone.”
Larry Obrist served in the Vietnam War and was assigned to the 25th Division Medical Battalion. “It’s what I call where we kept the score of dead and wounded.” Obrist says the walk is all about keeping veterans in Veterans Day.
“It’s a day for people to stop and look and listen as to the freedoms and the sacrifices many people, which they don’t know, have done.” KLIN News also spoke with Frank Delgado, who helped organize the walk 27 years ago.
“Since Lincoln, back then, did not have an official recognition of Veterans Day,” Delgado says. “And we saw things happening in other cities, but here we are the Capital of the state and you had no recognition.”
The group walked into Veterans Memorial Garden with sunshine overhead and placed flags to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. The City’s annual Veterans Day ceremony was held at 11:00 inside Auld Pavilion.
(Photos: KLIN’s Tom Stanton)