Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis will proclaim April as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Month, marking the 35th anniversary of the end of American involvement in the war. Lewis will make the proclamation at tonight’s 7:30 City Council meeting in the City Hall chambers, located at 25 W. Main St.

“As the founding principle of the Vietnam Veterans of America states, ‘Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another,’ we will stand by this principle as well,” Lewis said.

For more than 40 years, the City has hosted observances and parades to honor veterans, which have now grown into one of the largest tributes of its kind west of the Mississippi. Auburn’s observance honored Vietnam Veterans of America in 2008. The National Veterans Day Committee and the Department of Defense select the City of Auburn as one of the regional sites for Veterans Day Observance.

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring March 30, 2010 as “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day” in 2007.