God Bless Our Troops: Massive Ticker-Tape Parade Coming to NYC to Celebrate Post-9/11 War Veterans
By Bob Hoge | 6:00 AM on May 26, 2025
There’s an old saying: “Better late than never.” One could argue that this celebration is long overdue, but at least it’s coming now—Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams announced a fitting tribute to the warriors who have fought valiantly for our country in the post-9/11 years.
Dubbed the “Homecoming of Heroes” and slated for July 6, 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.
The ticker-tape parade, set to be the first of its kind in a major US city, will offer “a powerful opportunity to highlight the contributions that service members continue to make,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a fleet week event Thursday.Adams, who has not always been in lockstep with the increasingly extremist Democrat party and who recently announced he would seek reelection as an independent rather than as a Dem, spoke eloquently about the meaning of the parade:
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.more
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