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By the summer of 1979, the Council of Vietnam Veterans had transformed into Vietnam Veterans of America, a veterans service organization made up of, and devoted to, Vietnam veterans. Bobby Muller and Stuart F. Feldman were among the organization's co-founders. [2] Membership grew steadily, and for the first time, VVA secured significant ...
Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped; Vietnam Children's Fund; Viet Dreams; Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund; Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation; Voluntary Service Overseas; VIA (Volunteers In Asia) Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH) Vietnam Friendship Village Project; 4T - Vietnam Youth Education Support Center
National Association for Black Veterans; National Guard Association of the United States; Navy Musicians Association; Navy Mutual Aid Association; Paralyzed Veterans of America; Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (dissolved 2011) Polish Legion of American Veterans; Society of American Military Engineers
Lê Đức Thọ became active in Vietnamese nationalism as a teenager and spent much of his adolescence in French colonial prisons, an experience that hardened him. Thọ's nickname was "the Hammer" on account of his severity. [4]
The Vietnam Friendship Village's structure and organisation is done by the Veterans Association of Vietnam, and is supported by a global network of donors and volunteers. [3] With active fundraising branches in the United States, [ 4 ] Vietnam, [ 5 ] Germany, [ 6 ] and France, [ 7 ] the organization draws on international support to fund ...
Indian Ex Servicemen Movement (IESM) is a "All India Federation of Ex Servicemen's organizations" and individual veterans of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. [1] IESM was established in August 2008, in the wake of the UPA Government decision to implement Sixth Central Pay Commission, which depressed military pays and pensions, and ranks, relative to civilian Government employees ...
The U.S. government has used the archive’s online search engine to find documents relating to prisoners-of-war during their time in Vietnam. [20] In 2001, the Vietnam Archives established the Vietnam Virtual Archive with the aim of putting many documents online to facilitate free and easy access through the Internet.
He enlisted with the Marine Corps just after graduating from high school. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. He served in Vietnam for 11 months and seventeen days before being permanently disabled by his third wound at the battle of Con Thien in November 1967. He was medically retired as a corporal in 1969. [1]