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Tallahassee National Cemetery to Honor Vietnam Vets

WFSU | By Ashley Tressel
Published March 28, 2016 at 2:37 PM EDT
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The Tallahassee National Cemetery is observing the Vietnam War’s 50th Anniversary Tuesday. 

The cemetery will hold a ceremony for the Vietnam War’s 50th Anniversary Tuesday at 3. Everyone is invited to thank and honor veterans and their families. Florida Veterans’ Hall of Fame member Robert Milligan of the U.S. Marine Corps will be the guest speaker. The cemetery opened May 22, 2015.
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Ashley Tressel
Ashley Tressel is a senior Communication and English student at Florida State University. Before WFSU, she interned at the Executive Office of the Governor and The Borgen Project, a national nonprofit for global poverty. She also wrote freelance for Carbonated.tv, a multimedia news site and served as managing editor for the FSU International Programs magazine, Nomadic Noles, in Valencia, Spain. After graduation, Ashley plans to embark on her journalism career somewhere in Colorado.
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