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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
The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), [1] established in 1980, now the Veterans for America (VFA), is a Washington, D.C.-based international humanitarian organization that addresses the consequences of war and conflict. The founder of VVAF is Bobby Muller, a former U.S. Marine lieutenant and Vietnam veteran.
He founded the United Vietnam Veterans Organization (UVVO), [12] whose members joined Vietnam Veterans of America at the 1985 VVA National Convention in Detroit after UVVO dissolved. [13] Christian went on to serve as Regional Director of the US Department of Labor (Region 3) and then as Assistant State Director in Pennsylvania. His efforts ...
Nearly 60,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War, [9] and 3,417 of them were from Texas. [10] At a reading of the names of fallen veterans held in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium at the LBJ Library, newspaper reporter and Vietnam war correspondent Joe Galloway explained the purpose of the Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument is to "encourage hometowns across America to go all out to welcome Vietnam ...
Two veterans who served with Secretary of Defense designee Pete Hegseath recounted his valor and bravery in combat during their service with him in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
George Coker was born in Amarillo, Texas, on July 14, 1943.In 1951, his family moved to Linden, New Jersey, where he became a New Jersey high school state wrestling champion in the 142 lb weight class and played high school varsity football at Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey. [1]
Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest. The U.S. Navy veteran died Dec. 1 in hospice care at age 97 ...