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In the late 1970s a group was formed to create a memorial to the American veterans of the Vietnam War. A site for the memorial was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate on June 30, 1980. [27] Shortly thereafter a competition to design the memorial, which had to include the names of all Americans killed in the war or were still missing.
On October 15, 1965, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam in New York staged the first draft card burning, resulting in an arrest under the new law. Gruesome images of two anti-war activists who set themselves on fire in November 1965 demonstrated how strongly some people felt that the war was immoral.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
The exhibit will be making its only stop in New York from Aug. 8 to 11, and as part of the exhibit, local Vietnam veterans who died after returning home are eligible to be honored.
Signage for the memorial outside Veterans Memorial Hall, 2019. The Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a war memorial commemorating six local men who died who during the Vietnam War, installed outside Veterans Memorial Hall in Charlestown, Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The memorial was dedicated in April 2009.
The Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a memorial at Elmhurst Park in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City in honor of the veterans of the Vietnam War of 1955–1975. It was designed by Landscape Architects Denise Mattes and Frank Varro, and fabricated by Sprung Monuments, Corinthian Cast Stone Inc., and Barre Granite Association Inc.
The early 1970s saw multiple protests against American involvement in the Vietnam War, like this one in 1970, the 48-hour Fast for Peace in Rochester.
William Thomas Perkins Jr. (August 10, 1947 – October 12, 1967) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the United States' highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic action on October 12, 1967, during the Vietnam War in which he smothered an exploding grenade with his body to save the lives of three fellow Marines.