The Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade made Vietnam veteran Larry Boetch proud, a feeling he had not felt when he returned from the war.
Boetch volunteered in the draft and landed in Vietnam as a 19-year-old infantryman. He spent nearly a year in the war torn country. When he finally returned home in 1968 to a not-so-warm welcome, he took off his uniform and placed it in his closet where it stayed until it was eventually lost, he said.
“It has been a long time coming, and it makes me feel proud now when before I wasn’t,” he said…