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Membership grew steadily, and for the first time, VVA secured significant contributions. The combination of the public's willingness to talk about the Vietnam War and the basic issues that it raised, as well as the veterans themselves coming forward, was augmented by the nation's dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in November 1982. The ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), is the non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, a former Army Infantry in Vietnam. Others veterans joined including, Jack Wheeler , and several other graduates of West Point to finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who served or died during the ...
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is an American non-profit organization and corporation founded in 1967 to oppose the United States policy and participation in the Vietnam War. VVAW is a national veterans ' organization that campaigns for peace , justice , and the rights of all United States military veterans.
Feb. 1—Madison County Veteran Hall of Fame member Emerson McAfee is hard at work finding a way to recognize and remember the service of other Madison County veterans. His idea is to construct ...
In fact, the bill, S-2533/A-1213, which makes a supplemental appropriation of $15 million to Department of Military and Veterans Affairs for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation to ...
A recent Wall Street Journal opinion by Jerry C. Davis, “Vietnam Veterans Deserve an Apology,” alerted me to National Vietnam Veterans Day on March 29.
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.
Four Vietnam war veterans from the 173rd Airborne Brigade reunited Thursday, more than four decades after an explosion nearly killed one of them. KTLA captured the emotional reunion. "A band of ...