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  • A Veterans Day Reunion
    On Veterans Day, Jerry Barfield walked up to Tom Corey in a Washington hotel and introduced himself. Corey didn't recognize him. Barfield had seen Corey's name on an e-mail list some time before and was shocked at the sight of it. When he heard Corey would be at the Veterans Day dinner, he made inquiries.
  • Double Cross At Ngok Tavak
    On May 10, 1968, at three o'clock in the morning at Ngok Tavak, a Forward Operating Base near the Vietnam-Laos border, a small force of U.S. Marines, a handful of Australian and U.S. Special Forces, and 122 ethnic Chinese Nungs working under the command of Australian Capt.
  • An Image Crystallized Lee Teter's Gift to Veterans
    Describing Lee Teter's painting Reflections carries two risks. The first is inadequacy. No words can capture it. The second is redundancy.
  • A Winning Tribute: The Nevada Vietnam Memorial
    The quiet and powerful Nevada Vietnam Memorial is nestled inside Mills Park in the state capital named for the legendary frontiersman and scout Kit Carson.
  • From Vision To Reality: The Evolution of the In Memory Plaque
    Eleven years after it began, Ruth Coder Fitzgerald sounds surprised to be talking about it in the present tense. To speak of its completion is to acknowledge the reality of the struggle's success, an outcome she always hoped for but whose likelihood she often described as "miraculous."
  • Victor Westphall: "He Was A Father To All of Us"
    On Veterans Day 2002 four helicopters lifted off in a swirl of snow from the small airport at Angel Fire, high in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
  • A Long Time Coming
    In 1987, at a fish fry near Toledo, Ohio, a World War II veteran named Roger Durbin asked Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) a question about a memorial dedicated to those who served in the war. The question: Why wasn't there one?
  • The Moving Wall
    The Moving Wall is a half-size replica of the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It has been touring the country for the past 16 years.
  • "My Life Is Complete": Virginia Warren's Visit to The Wall
    Thirty-three years after her son died rushing to the aid of a fallen Marine, Virginia Warren touched him and felt him reaching back, touching her. She knows it in her soul. She had heard that this kind of thing happened to the loved ones of others who touched the names. Now it had happened to her.
  • Traveling With The Moving Wall Of The Vietnam Veterans
    They don't come for its size and scope. They come for the names.
  • Our Right To Know
    As I begin my term as chair of VVA's SHAD/Project 112 Task Force, I want to express my appreciation for the honor given me of being asked to take this important post. I will work diligently to fill the position vacated by our Vice President, Jack Devine, and to keep us moving forward.
  • Freedom Flight's POW / MIA Message From Above
    Jim Tuorila's most memorable hot air balloon flight comes with a small bit of irony attached to one of its more prominent elements, altitude. The veteran balloon pilot and co-founder of Freedom Flight, Inc., a non-profit organization that raises awareness as well as hot air balloons, had flown hundreds of times.
  • Hope In Bipartisanship
    Veterans are indebted to Reps. Rehberg and Thompson for their leadership and commitment to a shining, if rare, example of real bipartisanship.
  • A Death in the Desert: The Legacy of Lori Piestewa
    More than three months after Pfc. Lori Piestewa's death March 23 in an Iraqi ambush near Nasiryah, the telephone calls still come every day to the Hopi tribal offices in Kykotsmovi, Arizona.
  • Connecting The Dots
    It started in December 2004 when the Chicago Sun-Times ran a series of articles highlighting variations among states' veterans disability compensation payments. The report showed that New Mexico had the highest compensation payments and Illinois the lowest.
  • A VVA Action Plan For The Future
    Like every organization these days, VVA is in transition. To grow and remain relevant, we must change in order to respond to changes occurring around us.
  • For Those Who Lived: The Vietnam Women's Memorial
    The last thing I said to anyone I served with when I left Vietnam was that this place will never be anywhere but just over my shoulder for the rest of my life.
  • History Of The League's POW MIA Flag
    In 1971, Mrs. Michael Hoff, an MIA wife and member of the National League of Families, recognized the need for a symbol of our POW/MIAs.
  • Honoring And Keeping Faith
    On September 17, 1999, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen officiated over a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
  • A Short History of the VVA
    Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.
  • Accomplishment Of The VVA
    Vietnam Veterans of America, the nation's largest and most successful Vietnam veterans organization, and the only Vietnam veterans organization chartered by Congress, is proud of what it has accomplished over the last twenty years. Those accomplishments are many and varied.
  • Jackpot VVAs Twelfth Biennial Convention
    Any way you look at it, VVA's 12th biennial National Convention, which was held Aug. 10-13 at the Silver Legacy Hotel and Casino in Reno, Nevada, was a huge success.
  • Team Effort Tim Brown And VVA Bring Closure To Ngok Tavak
    Tim Brown's long battle for Ngok Tavak is over. Thirty-seven years after he survived a battle in which twelve of his fellow Marines died at an obscure outpost along the Laos-Vietnam border, Brown has found "a sense of relief."
  • Agent Orange - A Final Analysis
    That dioxin is a deadly toxin cannot be disputed. The weight of scientific evidence is just too great.
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