After rain washed out the planned fireworks display Sunday, the City of Norman has moved the fireworks showing scheduled for the Fourth of July to Nov. 6, preceding Veterans Day celebrations on Nov. 11, according to The Norman Transcript.
Gov. Brad Henry, who was slated to speak at Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall at Reaves Park on Sunday, is tentatively scheduled to speak in November, but the commitment has yet to be set in stone, the report also stated.
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There is no need to leave Norman on Sunday to see an Independence Day fireworks display.
There is a full day of events planned by the city to commemorate the day. The City of Norman’s Fourth of July fireworks spectacular begins at 9:45 p.m. in Reaves Park.
“It’ll be our typical Norman day, it’ll just change a little at the end with this ceremony,” said Jeff Hill, City of Norman parks and recreations superintendent. “But we believe it is a very good thing to do.”
Operation Oklahoma is the entity responsible for organizing the veteran’s recognition ceremony, and Gov. Brad Henry issued a proclamation declaring 2010 to be the year of the Vietnam veteran, Hill said.
“It is important to honor the sacrifices made by all our veterans,” Henry stated on the Operation Oklahoma website. “It is especially appropriate, however, that we do so for the men and women who served with distinction and valor in Vietnam, but were denied such praise upon their return home.”
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