NEPTUNE -- Many Vietnam veterans returning home from the war remember getting spit on, with no parade no hero's welcome. Fifty years after South Vietnam fell to Communist forces from the north, ...

Heck yeah, it’s about time,” Cardia said before the start of a Vietnam War commemoration ceremony in North Aurora Sunday morning. “I’m 78 years old and I knew I was going (to the war).

That is when the mayor began reaching out to other towns. "I reached out to Neptune ... that he brought back from Vietnam. "We have North Vietnamese flags and stuff like that.