About 70 people including some 30 Vietnam War veterans gathered on a cool and breezy morning to honor Haverhill’s 13 fallen Vietnam heroes as well as those still living along with their families in an hour-long ceremony at Mill Brook Park last Friday.

Many veterans service organizations who meet at local posts will hold celebrations for Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day for their members and their guests. Contact neighborhood VFW, American

It was a somber day marked by an appropriately dreary overcast, though no rain interrupted the event, which celebrated a holiday created by Congress in 2017 that commemorates March 29, 1973 — the day the last American combat troops withdrew from Vietnam. The war didn't officially end until 1975.