Events

The mission of these events is to reach out to Vietnam Veterans and bring them in to discuss Agent Orange and ways the Veterans Services can support these veterans.

The Wall That Heals will be hosted by Drost Equipment, Inc. for 4 days of events and activities dedicated to honoring and remembering veterans. http://www.buildthecenter.vvmf.org/page/event/detail/thewallthathealsevent/jrt

Vietnam Veteran themed parade. Donut Dollies and other Vietnam Veterans in attendance.

Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Convention. Our chapter will have a booth at the site of the event and also host a tea and home tour for the women attending the event. Please send materials to Margaret Taylor, PO Box 221411, Louisville, KY 40252. margaretctaylor@aol.com 502-744-8280

To thank and honor the Vietnam Veterans of the community

Freedom Fest is this Friday, July 4 at the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center! The second annual community-wide Independence Day celebration will feature festival favorites and new attractions, too. The popular Silver Wings Parachute Demonstration Team will drop in to the parade field behind the museum at 2:30 p.m. Expert jumpers will be on hand afterward to talk with festival-goers. There will be a Pint-Sized Patriots Parade down Heritage Walk beginning at 2 p.m. Kids up to age 12 should dress up in red, white and blue to look their patriotic best. Bikes, trikes, scooters and wagons decorated with signs and streamers make great ‘floats’ for this parade! The most creative and patriotic entries will win prizes. Parents, you can start registering your kids for the parade at noon near the museum’s rotunda. Re-enactors will fire a large Civil War era cannon every hour throughout the day, and will perform black powder musket drills until 1:30 p.m. Parked in front of the museum will be a much more modern instrument of warfare: a M1128 Mobile Gun System, an eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle. The Maneuver Center of Excellence’s popular concert and rock band will kick off the activities at 11 a.m. The Krissy Andrews Band performs at 3 p.m., and the Oneeders take the stage at 4:45 p.m. All day, kids will enjoy bounce houses, face and hair painting, and balloon animals. Parents will want to get free ID kits for their children through the GaCHIP program. World War II Company Street will be open for self-guided tours between 11a.m. and 3 p.m. The Vietnam Wall and the Memorial Walk of Honor will be open all day. The IMAX Theatre will be the perfect place to cool off, with alternating screenings of D-Day 3D: Normandy 1944 and We the People. The NIM SIM Combat Simulators are offering a buy-one-get-one deal if you give them the secret word you hear on Sunny 100 during the radio station’s live remote broadcast 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Visitors can purchase ice cream, ba

Remembrance Service--Reading of the 41 NC servicemen who not yet returned from Vietnam. In conjunction with the Roxboro Moose Riders ride for Wounded Warriors.

To thank and honor Vietnam Veterans. The Urbandale Iowa 4th of July parade is one of the largest in central Iowa. It has over 200 units and our Chapter will carry the Commemorative Flag for the 2 mile length of the parade.

The purpose of a library display is to show honor and appreciation for the sacrifices the military personnel went through during the Vietnam War. Also to educate the general public as the History of the time period.

Samuel Johnston Chapter Members are encouraged to knit and crochet warm scarves for the annual "Knit Your Bit" campaign that is sponsored by the National WW 2 Museum in New Orleans. Chapter members donated 24 hand-made scarves which are given to elderly and hospitalized veterans in VA facilities nationwide. Many are veterans of the Vietnam War. This is a year-round project for several of our Chapter members.

Special Recognition service to 26 men and women who serviced in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

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