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Vietnam War memorial in Little Saigon, Houston, Texas, United States. Vietnamese Walk of Honor Sign. Little Saigon, also popularly known as Vietnamtown or simply Viet-Town, is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas centered on Bellaire Boulevard west of Chinatown. It is one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the United States.
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...
During the Vietnam War and in the following twelve months, 235 Medals of Honor were awarded and since 1978 a further 33 awards have been presented. Of the total of 268 awards, 179 were to the US Army, 15 to the US Navy, 58 to the USMC and 14 to the USAF. [3] These totals do not include the award to the Vietnam Unknown Soldier.
The governments of the U.S. and Vietnam officially agreed to open the Consulate-General of Vietnam in Houston in August 2009, and the consulate held its official inauguration on March 25, 2010. [17] In 2020 a local man named Lê Hoàng Nguyên put up a bilingual English-Vietnamese billboard promoting the Black Lives Matter movement.
Major General Bob Dempsey with his wife attended the National Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony at the Texas Panhandle War Memorial on Friday. Dempsey flew 201 missions, and his plane was hit four ...
The Vietnam Memorial is installed at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Dedicated on April 19, 2008, the grey and black granite monument has a bronze sculpture on top and commemorates Texas veterans of the Vietnam War.
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 ...
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 ...