Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a celebration held on May 5.
The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16.
Interment for Florida State Brother Swoop will be at the South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth, FL
on May 5th, 2015, at 2:00pm. Per the families request, all U.S. Military Vets meet at the National Cemetery
by 1:30pm to line both sides of the entrance road for Swoops arrival.