About 12,000 men and women from Los Angeles County have given their lives in America's wars since 1941.
Photo from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1935. Participants in a Memorial Day event at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum march before 25,000 spectators. A number of surviving Civil War veterans were also honored in this event. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was first opened in 1923, commissioned in honor of U.S. veterans who died in World War I. In 1968, the Coliseum was re-dedicated to honor all veterans of World War I.
Almost all the families who were recruited in 1781 to establish the tiny new pueblo of Los Angeles were headed by people of color. The head of one of those families was Filipino.
