Veteran's Day: Clovis honors Valley veterans with day full of events

CLOVIS, Calif. -- Several events were held successful Clovis connected Veteran's Day successful grant of those who person served our country

Hundreds of veterans gathered for a pancake meal successful Clovis to foster a communal enslaved implicit their shared clip serving the state they love.

"It doesn't substance your rank, rate, oregon work due to the fact that we're each 1 group. We're each veterans, that doesn't substance if you'd person 3 weeks successful the Military oregon 30 years. We're each the same," said Cristofer Thrailkill, a retired US Navy and US Air Force servicemember.

Close to 700 veterans met astatine the Clovis Veterans Memorial District.

Along with the meal buffet, the day's events besides featuring a patriotic concert, vintage car show, arsenic good arsenic a moving photograph exhibit.

The lawsuit bringing unneurotic the adjacent procreation of work members and veterans past.

"You person the Junior ROTC, Boy Scouts, you person young Marines, you person the Navy cadets. You person everybody here. They're each going to help. Because what we're trying to bash present is person the veterans mingle with radical and really get retired and bask the day," said Thrailkill.

You whitethorn person ne'er heard of their stories oregon not adjacent cognize their names, but the faces of Valley veterans are each astir us.

For some, their passionateness to service is ingrained successful their DNA."

"I travel from a agelong enactment of military. My archetypal veterans were successful the Revolutionary War. So I person radical that person fought successful each the wars each the mode up," said John Cline, a Vietnam Veteran and combat medic.

Step into the Faces of Our Veterans grounds and you'll spot a photograph depicting a past 20-year-old Cline serving arsenic a combat medic successful Vietnam successful 1969.

The representation conjuring a premix of emotions.

"Some of the feelings, it stirs up precise disturbing things for me. Things that I don't similar to retrieve a batch of times, but past I retrieve the comradery and the unification that we each had due to the fact that we were conscionable doing our jobs," said Cline.

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