YORBA LINDA, Calif.—Along several blocks of Yorba Linda Boulevard, hundreds of people gathered May 23 waving American flags as Vietnam War veterans drove past them in classic sports cars and large touring buses traveling towards the Nixon Library to celebrate its latest exhibit: “CAPTURED, Shot Down in Vietnam.”
“This event for our Vietnam vets is long overdue,” January, 74, of Santa Ana, who did not give her last name, told The Epoch Times. “We sent so many of our children off to a war that they never came back from.”
People celebrate Vietnam War POWs in Yorba Linda, Calif., on May 23, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
In front of the Nixon Library were dozens of black and white POW flags in honor of 150 servicemen in attendance for the exhibit’s opening. Each had been captured and imprisoned while serving during the war….