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In January 1978, a small group of Vietnam veteran activists came to Washington, D.C., searching for allies to support the creation of an advocacy organization devoted exclusively to the needs of Vietnam veterans. VVA, initially known as the Council of Vietnam Veterans, began its work. By the summer of 1979, the Council of Vietnam Veterans had ...
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
Katzen has been recognized by the National Federation of Independent Business, the Vietnam Veterans of America, Virginia’s Council of Indians, 4-H, the Virginia Society for Human Life, the National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition, and Virginia’s Armenian community. He served as chairman of the Rappahannock River Basin Commission ...
Frustrated with how Vietnam War veterans were treated upon their return to the United States, both by the general public and the government, Christian became an advocate and veterans leader. [11] He founded the United Vietnam Veterans Organization (UVVO), [ 12 ] whose members joined Vietnam Veterans of America at the 1985 VVA National ...
Veterans for America is uniting the new generation of veterans with those from past wars to address the needs of veterans, service members and their families and their larger concerns about the impact of war. It is an advocacy and humanitarian organization. Veterans for America is committed to advancing policy and elevating public discourse on ...
In 1996, the Vermont State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America re-publicized the Vermont Patriots Medal, and the state legislature passed an amended bill to make funds available for the medal so it could be created and presented to the surviving family members of Vermont's Vietnam War dead. [1]
Rowan became a member of the Council of Vietnam Veterans, later known as the Vietnam Veterans of America, in 1978. [1] [3] He was a founding member of its chapter in Queens, New York in 1981. [1] From 1995 to 2005, he was the president of the VVA's New York State Council from 1995 to 2005. [1] Since 2005, he has served as its sixth national ...
Jan Craig Scruggs (born March 11, 1950) is a United States Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War, and later founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Scruggs was the President of the foundation until 2015, when he retired.