ESKATON REIGNS ON VETERANS PARADE. Emotions registered off-the-scale at West Sacramento’s Veterans Day Parade, the first in recent history. Several thousand residents lined the small town’s streets and attended the official ceremony afterward to honor local heroes. Veterans from all eras of combat and all branches of the military participated. But it was perhaps most poignant for the Vietnam veterans, who experienced their first such recognition. “‘My Parade’ was a very soothing moment in my life,” one Vietnam vet explained.
Eskaton presented the parade as a public service, part of its Veterans Appreciation Initiative, to honor all war veterans, including the hundreds who reside in its communities throughout Northern California and particularly the several dozen at Eskaton Wilson Manor in West Sacramento.
Though Eskaton’s role as Parade sponsor was intentionally low-profile, the organization’s commitment of time and resources was more than compensated by recognition from attending government officials, voluminous coverage by local news media, and most importantly by the appreciation of proud veterans and their grateful families and neighbors. Watch news report.
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