The city of Scottsdale is participating in National Vietnam Veterans Day with a ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 29, at the Scottsdale Civic Center East Bowl.
This year’s featured speaker is Vietnam veteran Francisco “Frank” Moreno, a former U.S. Army paratrooper and helicopter pilot who was awarded a Silver Star.
As a young soldier with the 101st Airborne Division, Moreno was among the paratroopers who enforced President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957…