Events

Children from several school districts will participate in the Art Contest on "Thanking a Vietnam Vet". We will be contacting local veterans organizations and ask that Vietnam Vets help judge the contests and share the art with their families and friends.

Lecture and symposium onboard the USS Yorktown at 7:00PM by Alvin Townley, author of "Defiant;" a book that describes the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned. From the hundreds of brave Americans held captive during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese singled out the eleven most uncooperative, influential, and subversive – Vietnam’s own Dirty Dozen. These leaders were exiled to a dreadful prison called Alcatraz, where despite torture and isolation, the leadership, resilience, and defiance of the “Alcatraz Eleven” became legend. While North Vietnam imprisoned these men for more than seven years, their remarkable wives soldiered on at home; some didn’t learn their husbands’ fate for more than four years. These women struggled with the U.S. and North Vietnamese governments alike to secure the safe return of their loved ones. Their legacy lives on in the National League of POW/MIA Families, which they founded. DEFIANT recounts the epic and inspiring triumph of courage, faith, and honor in the darkest of circumstances.

Thanked and honored Vietnam veterans in Grafton, VT by presenting them with Certificates and pins.