Washing The Wall
NewDay USA joined us for the first Wall washing of the season!
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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
The Road to Canonization: Father Capodanno
By Mary Preece As we begin 2013, may I wish you all a Happy New Year, or more appropriately in Italian, Buon Capodanno! I am most honored to compose this blog to share… Read More
Standing in a place I could have been
In the early 1960s, Bob Parks first heard about ROTC. He was studying business administration at Bucknell when he was given the opportunity to give six months of active duty and six years… Read More
How George H.W. Bush Helped Build The Wall
By Jan C. Scruggs I have had the opportunity to meet and have conversations with some really great leaders in my lifetime. I have met Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, Jimmy… Read More
A WINTER OF DISCONTENT
By Jan C. Scruggs Washington, D.C. winters can mirror what many view to be characteristics of the city itself – cold and awful. The winter of 1981 was a textbook example of wintertime… Read More
All About Time
By Alivia Tagliaferri The visitors chattered, drawn out of their homes and shops by the warm temperature of a January day that forgot to be cold. But I paid them no heed. Not the… Read More
West Point Graduate Donates in Honor of his Fallen Classmates
William Murdy has been involved with VVMF, trying to build the Education Center at The Wall, from the start. The Vietnam veteran and Chairman of Comfort Systems USA provided some of the initial… Read More
Vietnam Widow Donates to Build the Education Center at The Wall
Linda Wyant Fujitani and Alfred Cornejo were high school sweethearts at San Mateo High School in San Mateo, Calif. Eager to begin their lives together, they married just after graduation. But the Vietnam… Read More
Veteran Donates in Honor of His Friends
Philadelphia Marine veteran Gunnery Sergeant Frank “Gunny” Thompson was recognized for a significant donation in honor fellow service members inscribed on The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. One of the service members… Read More
