{"id":244766,"date":"2026-04-24T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:59:07","slug":"heroes-welcome-home-parade-brings-moving-replica-of-vietnam-veterans-memorial-wall-to-broward-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244766\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Welcome Home parade brings moving replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to Broward &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVIE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A special honor for Vietnam War veterans passed through Broward County, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Heroes Welcome Home parade passed through parts of Broward County, passing by several schools and Davie\u2019s police and fire rescue headquarters before wrapping up at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The parade featured a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>After being first introduced in 1984, the parade helped bring the memorial experience to communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The traveling memorial is half the size of the original wall and tours are done from April through November, spending about a week at different sites nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The replica will be open for the public at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds through the weekend. There will also be special presentations available for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A special honor for Vietnam War veterans passed through Broward County, Thursday. The Heroes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-244766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}