basically said, you guys, we are almost home, we all want to go, wait for us. so there s no specific new date set yet for the twin cities parade for the end of the iraq war, but we are told they are aiming for late july. we will let you know when we know more. also, richmond, virginia, richmond, virginia s end to the iraq war parade is set for may 19. there has been some worry richmond wouldn t be able to pull it off. they needed to raise money to cover the costs, particularly the police costs, of the event. organizers had set the rather intimidating goal of raising $50,000 for the richmond, virginia, parade by today. today was their deadline. and they hit it. so the parade is on. again, may 19th, itch richmond, virginia. they need to raise some money for costs of the event, but at least they now they can cover police reports for the parade. so it is on the calendar in pen. the first of the parades was in st. louis. then there was a big one in tucson. there was another big one in hou
con voups convoys of supplies and thousands of our american troops leaving iraq and crossing over into kuwait. over the next few weeks nearly 3,000 of these troops from the 34th infantry red bulls will be coming home to minnesota. they were part of the single largest deployment since world war ii. and it is because of those minnesotans returning home that we have news to report tonight on the nationwide grassroots effort to welcome home iraq war vet vans veterans. as we have done for every war in moderate history, the twin cities, minneapolis and st. paul, their parade to mark the end of the iraq war and say welcome home and thank you to the troops, the twin cities parade was planned for tomorrow, this saturday, but because minnesota is right in the middle of this big proation ofç troop coming home from kuwait, the twin cities decided to postpone the parade so as many people can participate as possible. organizers say they were charactered by both the military and by friends and fami
thousands of people in downtown melbourne, florida, for the welcome home veterans parade. the parade itself included over 650 veterans. melbourne is an hour from orlando and every veteran in the parade was given tickets to theme parks like walt disney world and sea world. next up on the iraq war veterans parade docket will be a parade in media, pennsylvania, set for april 28th, a week from tomorrow. (! des moines, iowa, will be hosting one in june. and then in new york city, apparently never, because even though new york city is where we civilians traditionally have welcomed home the troops at the end of american wars, the pentagon says they do not want that for iraq veterans in new york. everywhere else is in town country they think it is fine, but not new york city for some reason. so new york wet vans of the iraq war do not get a public welcome home and the country doesn t get the collapse to say welcome home and thank you and we are glad the war is over in the traditional new york