A simple phrase with just two words can mean the world to a Vietnam veteran: Welcome home. “Of all the veterans that we’ve pinned, generally speaking, most of them cry because that’s the first time anybody’s ever said to them,

National Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony at the Gold Star Families Memorial Auditorium on the CT Veterans Affairs campus in Rocky Hill

The ceremony will include a roll call of veterans, a keynote address by a Vietnam veteran and the presentation of commemorative pins and challenge coins.