Evers orders flags lowered to half-staff to honor Hmong-Lao Veterans Day

Gov. Tony Evers ordered the U.S. and Wisconsin flags to be flown at half-staff on Saturday to honor Hmong-Lao Veterans Day. 

Final 12 months, Evers signed a invoice designating Might 14 to honor the Hmong-Lao folks, a lot of whom fought with the U.S. in the course of the Vietnam Warfare. Might 14 is the forty seventh anniversary of the final day of airlift evacuations of Hmong-Lao troopers from Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand.

After the warfare, most of the veterans resettled in the US and a major variety of them got here to Wisconsin. 

“Final 12 months, I used to be proud to signal 2021 Wisconsin Act 31 into regulation to not solely acknowledge and honor Wisconsin’s Hmong-Lao veterans however to make sure future generations of Wisconsinites proceed to study and perceive the important function Hmong-Lao folks performed within the Vietnam Warfare,” Evers mentioned. “On Hmong-Lao Veterans Day, we be a part of all Wisconsinites in honoring the sacrifices and repair of the 1000’s of Hmong-Lao veterans who fought alongside the US and acknowledge the various Hmong-Lao veterans who name Wisconsin house in the present day.”