Mayor de Blasio is refusing to allow a group of military veterans to march on Staten Island on Memorial Day — after welcoming public pot smokers to puff their way down Broadway in last week’s Cannabis Parade.
“It’s a slap in the face,” Jamie Gonzalez, 57, a Marine infantryman who saw combat in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, told The Post.
Gulf War vets like Gonzalez were set to be given special honors in Staten Island’s 102nd annual Memorial Day Parade this year to mark the 1991 conflict’s 30th anniversary — until the city pulled the plug.
“For many of us, a parade is a form of closure,” Gonzalez said. “We gather together and support each other.”
“I’m incensed,” said Ted Cohen, 82, a retired Air Force reservist who was on alert through the Cuban Missile Crisis. “It’s pathetic.”
The Island vets, whose predicament was first reported in the Staten Island Advance, are enraged by the unequal treatment.
“Look, have any parade you want, I have no problem with that,” said Volker Heyde, 78, the commandant of Staten Island’s Marine Corps League. “But for the city to put dopeheads over vets is just dishonoring us.”
Just more destruction of our Military and Police and allowing crime after crime to destroy our country by these communist Democrats . WHEN ARE THE PATRIOTS OF THIS COUNTRY going to pull up their big boy panties and stop taking this?? Just like Washington Pentagon not letting the Veterans Motorcycle ride but letting Antifa and BLM riot in Washington.
Democrats are anti Veteran!!!