Post Messenger Recorder -

The Vietnam Vets Chapter 3 are planning to honor Vietnam veterans at a rededication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Monticello at Noon on the Sunday of Homecoming, July 12, fifty years from the start of ground troops into the Vietnam war. 

There will be a 21-gun salute, and balloon releases are planned in memory of the MIAs and for the eight Green County men killed in the war.  The Memorial is located at the edge of the Village Parking lot, at Staedtler Avenue and N. Monroe Street. The Veterans are also planning to march in the Homecoming Parade, which begins at 2:00 p.m.