Flags fly through Downtown Fresno for Veterans Day Parade

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A flood of red, achromatic and bluish filled the streets of Downtown Fresno connected Tuesday astatine the 106th Central Valley Veterans Day Parade.

From section instrumentality enforcement to precocious schoolhouse bands, groups from crossed the Valley came unneurotic to observe the brave men and women who person served successful the equipped forces.

Community members, young and old, stood arrogant to observe those who gave of themselves to support the information of our country.

"What veterans person been done isn't easy, truthful it's truly bully that we tin travel retired present and grant them," said Bella Rodriguez.

Her gramps served successful the military.

"Just to spot the metropolis travel unneurotic similar this means a lot, particularly being a Californian and my dada is my hero," said Sydney Hobbs.

Hobbs was 1 of thousands who came retired to ticker from the sidewalk.

Beside her sat the crushed for her pridefulness successful the parade, her father, an aerial unit veteran.

"That's my leader and that's the idiosyncratic who has shown maine what benignant of idiosyncratic to beryllium successful this satellite and however to judge anybody," Hobbs said.

Lining the streets were veterans donning hats and jackets commemorating their clip successful service, and plentifulness of them rode that question of appreciation done the parade way arsenic well.

"It's fantastic to spot everyone retired present to enactment and amusement the appreciation of the equipped forces," said 27-year Marine Corps seasoned Mario Flores.

Gilbert Mendez, a unit main successful the Vietnam War, was 1 of galore veterans taking a well-deserved infinitesimal to admit their ain sacrifice, saying, "I wanna cry, due to the fact that it was hard. But I came back. That's the main thing, I came back."

Event organizers made it wide that the readying for adjacent year's Veterans' Day parade is already underway, and they can't hold to bash it each again for their section heroes.