Names To Be Added to The Wall

by Allyson Shaw

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 →

Mourning the Loss of a Dear Friend

by Jenn Rowell

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is deeply saddened by the loss of longtime supporter, Sandy Mayo. The Georgia native was drafted by the Army and he served as a first lieutenant, including a… Read More →

Before Vietnam

by Jenn Rowell

By David Lucier It was the spring of 1968, it was April, and training had been suspended. I leaned up against the truck’s deep-treaded tire smoking a Winston from a soft pack. It… Read More →

A Story Across Generations

by Jenn Rowell

By Jenna Martin When you think of the Vietnam War, what comes to mind?  Whether the United States won?  Maybe that a family or friend was killed in this war. To the war… Read More →

Participate in the Reading of the Names in Your Community

by Jenn Rowell

For nearly a century, November 11 has been a day to honor veterans. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the day the first observance of what was then Armistice Day. He had this… Read More →

VVMF Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

by Jenn Rowell

This week marks the end of Hispanic Heritage Month and we’d like to share this video with you featuring David Zayas, from TV’s Dexter, honors the 3,031 Hispanics heroes that made the ultimate sacrifice… Read More →

The Home Depot Foundation’s Celebration of Service: Stories Behind the Numbers

by Jenn Rowell

I don’t particularly like numbers, but they seem to be everywhere and we all seem to have so many. Cell numbers, street numbers, passwords, speed limits, years, dates, times. Babies can’t leave the… Read More →

Until They Are Home: Army Sgt. Major Danang McKay

by Jenn Rowell

U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Danang McKay is the Command Senior Enlisted Leader at Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. I’m constantly reminded of why we continue America’s search for our missing heroes; at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting… Read More →

My War Story

by Jenn Rowell

This latest installment in our Lessons from War project, in which Jan C. Scruggs interviews prominent Americans about their experiences during the Vietnam War. Barry McCaffrey is president of BR McCaffrey Associates LLC.… Read More →

A Final Wish

by Jenn Rowell

A community helped give a dying man his final wish. Dennis Hall of Oklahoma served in Vietnam from 1969-1970 with a Duster unit. The Duster was a nickname for the M42 40mm self-propelled… Read More →