Washing The Wall
NewDay USA joined us for the first Wall washing of the season!
Names To Be Added to The Wall
The names of four American servicemen will be engraved on the black granite walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial over the next week, and the status designations will be changed for 13 others… Read More
Middle Schoolers Honor Vietnam Heroes
The Vietnam War often gets just a small mention in middle school history books. For most 12 and 13 year olds, the war seems to exist in the distant past, with no effect… Read More
Remembering His Name
Just before visiting The Wall That Heals in Columbus, Ohio, Bill Cousar stepped into the information tent and found himself looking at a familiar face. The face of his high school buddy who… Read More
Riding to Heal
By Lee Ulferts For many years I have personally carried the burden of my service in Vietnam. I, like all veterans I know, buried my feelings (as we were all told to do)… Read More
Time to go... Back out to Sea?
Reblogged from Action Speaks-Voices of Operation Homefront: I’ve never been on a cruise. Or should I say, on a ship that wasn’t painted gray and called USS Lincoln. But when I heard that… Read More
Losing a Loyal Friend
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund lost a loyal supporter this past March. Richard “Dick” Frey, 70, loving husband, father and grandfather, died March 8, 2013. Dick was born in a small, rural town… Read More
The Wall That Heals Begins 2013 Tour
The Wall That Heals began a promising 2013 nation-wide tour with a desperately cold snow storm in Columbus, Ohio on March 24. Despite the freezing temperatures and winter storm, over 400 people made… Read More
Women in Wartime: A Nurse Remembers
By Diane Carlson Evans My plane touched down in Vietnam on August 2, 1968. The blast of heat and the smell of jet fuel hit me first, then the sight of GIs with MI6s… Read More
Women in Wartime: A Donut Dolly
By Holley Watts None of us really knew what we were getting into. Generally speaking, we were educated but naïve, optimistic but cautious, determined but wary. The challenge was then (as it still… Read More
