Dubbed the “Homecoming of Heroes” and slated for July 6, 2026, the parade down the “Canyon of Heroes” from the Battery to City Hall formally recognizes more than 2.9 million Americans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan following the September 11 terror attacks. “It would pay tribute to the extraordinary service, sacrifice and resilience of the post 9/11 combat veterans who did so much to protect our city and our nation in the wake of the deadliest attack on our homeland since Pearl Harbor,” he added. If the “Homecoming of Heroes” is anything like the Downtown Alliance’s other ticker-tape parades, the combat veterans will be memorialized in stone with one of over 200 of the alliance’s granite sidewalk plaques along the “Canyon of Heroes” sometime after the parade.
Author: Nicole Rosenthal
Published at: 2025-05-25 22:49:16
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