Civic Virtue and Other Habits

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By Jan C. Scruggs The Education Center at The Wall will serve many purposes for our society. Working together with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Education Center will be a place where visitors… Continue reading →

How George H.W. Bush Helped Build The Wall

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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… Continue reading →

A WINTER OF DISCONTENT

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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… Continue reading →

All About Time

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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… Continue reading →

West Point Graduate Donates in Honor of his Fallen Classmates

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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… Continue reading →

Vietnam Widow Donates to Build the Education Center at The Wall

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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… Continue reading →

Veteran Donates in Honor of His Friends

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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… Continue reading →

VVMF Says Thank You!

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All of us here at VVMF would like to extend a sincere “Thank you” to each and every person who has supported us in reaching our goal. We are delighted to say that… Continue reading →

Dustoff Medic Remembers Vietnam

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By Neal Stanley It seems like maybe only two years ago I was running to my chopper…putting on my flak jacket and flight helmet….untying the main rotor blade….watching the engine compartment for fire… Continue reading →

Veteran To Honor His Fallen High School Classmates

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Of the seven young men who went to fight in Vietnam from R. L. Turner High School class of 1967 in Carrollton, Texas, Michael Johnson was the only one to come back. “I… Continue reading →