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Vietnam Veteran Throwing Medal at the U.S. Capital. On April 23, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement" as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well worn uniforms, stepped up, and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons ...
Now, a veterans group is planning to build a 6 1/2-foot-high black granite monument dedicated to the 23 Harlingen soldiers killed during the war from 1961 to 1975. As part of the project, city ...
This Veterans Day, thank and honor Vietnam War veterans and their families for their service and sacrifce.
Members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 803 take part in a past Elmira Memorial Day parade.
Viễn Đông Daily News (Vietnamese: Nhật báo Viễn Đông, lit. 'Far East Daily News') is one of the three largest Vietnamese-language newspapers published seven days a week by Vietnamese overseas. [1] Founded in 1993, its headquarters is situated in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, California.
VVA, initially known as the Council of Vietnam Veterans, began its work. By the summer of 1979, the Council of Vietnam Veterans had transformed into Vietnam Veterans of America, a veterans service organization made up of, and devoted to, Vietnam veterans. Bobby Muller and Stuart F. Feldman were among the organization's co-founders. [2]
Oct. 18—TESUQUE — Several times, Avelino Calabaza has reached out his hand and touched the black granite monument in Washington, D.C., devoted to the memory of American soldiers whose died in ...
Feldman helped found Vietnam Veterans of America in 1978, together with Bobby Muller, a veteran who had been paralyzed during his service in Vietnam. [ 3 ] A 1977 article in Fortune magazine stated he "single-handedly... won billions of dollars for veterans programs". [ 3 ]