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Cheers tears for Viet vets parade through New York
About 25 000 Vietnam veterans in combat fatigues led a ticker tape homecoming across the Brooklyn Bridge and Wall Street as a million spectators cheered. Veterans endured a long wait for recognition while rooms filled with ribbons and medals. Gen Westmoreland and 26 Medal of Honor recipients marched, and Mayor Koch aided an amputee veteran in the crowd.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Wall Street
Erans
Intrepid
Hudson River
Air Force
Ron Naismith
George Alvarado
Brooklyn
Manhattan
William Westmoreland