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The Watsonville Veterans Day committee and the City of Watsonville filmed a Veterans Day program that will be shown online on Nov. 11 at 10:55am. Organizer Harry Wiggins, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, said the program was filmed at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1716 building on Freedom Boulevard. “Due to the pandemic, social distancing and group gathering restrictions, we had to cancel the veterans
Edward Bates US Navy 1944-1948 San Diego
march down Main Street and our live 2020 Veterans Day Celebration at the Watsonville Veterans Memorial Building,” he said. The public can tune in to the program by visiting facebook.com/watsonvillecity or youtube.com/user/ WatsonvilleCityTV. This year’s program will honor World War II veterans from the Pajaro Valley and throughout the county who have died in 2020. They are:
Emil David Edgren U.S. Army Signal Corp Iceland and Europe 1940-1945
Dr. Bryan Lee U.S. Army 1942-1945 China and Burma
