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Kenneth Metoyer found a home in Yuma. A park plaque honors him and his father.
KYMA reports that family, friends and veterans gathered Oct. 23 for a tribute to Kenneth Metoyer and his late father, Victor Jones.
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The plaque honored two generations. What Kenneth Metoyer talked about was the people who came.
KYMA reported that family, friends and retired veterans gathered at Yuma’s Armed Forces Park on Oct. 23 to unveil a plaque honoring Sgt. Metoyer and his late father, Pfc. Victor Jones.
Metoyer, described in the report as an 80-year-old former Marine, told the station that being stationed in Yuma led him to meet his wife. They later spent a couple of years in Los Angeles before he returned to Yuma for work. It became home through more than a military assignment.
KYMA describes Metoyer’s service during the Vietnam War and Jones’s service during World War II. We have not inspected their service records and are not treating that description as confirmation of where either man served.
Metoyer credited his wife with organizing the surprise and thanked Marine Corps Air Station Yuma for attending. Asked about the honor, he singled out “the fact that everybody came.”
That is a modest sentence for a permanent marker. It says quite a lot.
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- Secondary source / research lead · News reportKYMA: Kenneth Metoyer and Victor Jones plaque at Armed Forces Park
Connor Emery’s ceremony report and interview with Kenneth Metoyer. Supports the family tribute and Metoyer’s account of his connection to Yuma. No service records or plaque inscription independently inspected; no in-country Vietnam service inferred.