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 Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Trail is located in Price County and has 13 markers to represent the 13 years of service and sacrifice of the brothers and sisters in arms. The markers denote events of the war that were deemed important by Vietnam Veterans. The trail is a commemorative project to remind the public of the sacrifices made by this group of unheralded veterans.

To thank and honor Veterans of the Vietnam War, including personnel who were POW/MIA, for their service and sacrifice on behalf of the United States, and to thank and honor the families of these veterans.

these events will inform fellow Vietnam veterans and civilians that it will be 50 years since the start of Vietnam war and that multi events will be held to commemorate that date.

We will be handing out personalized thank you notes from our Chapter with the pin attached. We work closely with a number of Veterans organizations and will be personally thanking Vietnam Veterans for their service.

To honor & thank veterans of the Vietnam War, to honor & thank veteran families, will lay wreaths on 5 graves of veterans in Chowan County killed in Vietnam War

We will be giving personalized certificates and pins to our local Vietnam Vets from our local Chapter

Interview inserts into local papers on Vietnam Veteran interviews.

The Return will recognize and create awareness for the Vietnam Veteran by 10 Vietnam Vets riding motorcycles cross country and touring Vietnam at locations where they served. NBA team, New Orleans Pelicans, have scheduled to dedicate the home game on 27 March 2015 to honor Vietnam Veterans. The Welcome Home Celebration will be an all-star celebrity concert honoring the Vietnam Veterans. Proceeds generated from this event will help us establish Camp NORA, a homeless veterans village.

There are two events. On February 21 we have our chapter meeting at 248 S Ute Avenue. Our program will be given by a Vietnam War Veteran. We expect up to 100 members and guest. On Memorial Day weekend we will be dedicating a Monument/marker for the Vietnam War Veterans and their families at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado. This service that the marker will be dedicated for normally has 1000 plus veterans and guests.

Post volunteers will be visiting local high school history classes and giving a presentation.

Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans

All veterans will be thanked and honored in the following ways: There will be a wreath laying ceremony at the 20th Century Veterans Memorial (http://www.20thcvetsmem.org). After the event, Certificates of Appreciation will be presented to veterans at either the WWII canteen facility or the local VFW. Spouses of DAR members will also be invited to the convention and those veterans among them and their spouses will be honored. We have also invited Yvonne Schilz, the Chief, Commemorative Partner Program and POW/MIA Liaison for the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration to be a guest speaker at our event.

We will honor and thank all veterans residing at the Cameron, MO Veterans' Home and their families. We will also recognize the Vietnam Veterans and their families and tell them about the 50th Anniversary. We will highlight the Commemorative Flag during a special program and serve refreshments.

Farmington has over 200 Vietnam veterans living in the community but there is no veterans organization for them to gather and meet. The veterans will be able to to do this when they attend the "Bring your own brown bag" lunches which will be held at the Farmington Town Hall from 11 am to 1 pm the second Wednesday of each month until December 2017. The main focus is to give the veterans a place where they can casually gather and share but a short program will be designed by sometimes inviting guest speakers. The local DAR chapter will present certificates to all Vietnam veterans who attend.

Six Vietnam veterans and their guests will be honored at the CTDAR spring conference banquet. Requesting 6 gold pins.

A play about visitors to the Vietnam Memorial in DC. The audience appears to be in the Wall looking out at the visitors and hearing their thoughts and conversations. A 1/8 replica of the Memorial Wall, helicopters and vehicles along with displays will be on hand. Tickets are free until they run out. Friday show 7PM Saturday show 4PM Sunday show 2PM

To make veterans and the public aware of the 50th Commemoration of the Vietnam war; handing out information on Vietnam veterans issues, agent orange issues, and health concerns for Vietnam veterans. Tabletop display is held at the VA Hospital the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month for 8 hours per day.

The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Revolution is having our State Conference. For our Friday night gala, we are having a Donut Dollie from Vietnam speak and a Vietnam Color Guard. Throughout the weekend, we are going to be honoring Vietnam Vets.

To highlight the service of the armed forces during the Vietnam War and to educate the public with displays of the history of the war and personal photographs, items loaned to the DAR chapter by service members

Vietnam Veterans will be introduced by name and branch of service, be presented a special Vietnam Veteran coin from VFW Post 9430, walk the red carpet isle of honor to be welcomed home by all in attendance with signs, handshakes, and hugs. There will also be a cake cutting ceremony. Guest speaker from Joint Base Lewis McChord Adopted unit. Commemoration objectives that will be accomplished are: (1) Thank and Honor Veterans of the Vietnam War; (2) Highlight the service of the Armed Forces

Recognition of all Vietnam veterans and their families. Thank and honor Vietnam veterans and their families. Co-Hosts for the event include: Stonewall Jackson Chapter Association of the U.S. Army City of Salem City of Vinton Roanoke County Town of Vinton

To honor Vietnam Veterans- Certificates from NSDAR will be presented and hopefully pins you will provide. Speakers: Major General Lester "Les" Simpson (Vietnam Veteran), Ken Shetterm (Mayor of Burleson), US Rep. Roger Williams (R- Weatherfor)

Honor and recognize our Vietnam Veterans with a ceremony that includes speakers, the Veterans Band, and a roll call of all Vietnam Veterans present with Name, service, year, and unit.

The purpose of the event is to pay special tribute to local Vietnam veterans. We will be partnering with Vietnam Veterans of America, Stanley E. Taylor Memorial Chapter 196 at Monument Terrace, Lynchburg, VA, a special location where military veterans have been gathering each Friday at noon since November 2001. The monument was built to celebrate veterans who served during World War I and II, Spanish-American War, Civil War, Korean War and present day wars. This monument began under the leadership of Mr. Steve Bozeman, a Vietnam War veteran and POW. He will be leading this special recognition ceremony. We will be honoring the Vietnam veterans this day by the singing of the National Anthem, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, reading of a poem, providing a gift to all veterans in attendance and the playing of TAPS. Also in attendance will be veterans from Liberty University and the local Lynchburg area.

This traveling exhibit details the American prisoner of war experience from the Civil War to modern conflicts. It was created by the National Park Service in cooperation with the American Ex-Prisoners of War and the Friends of Andersonville, to give more citizens the opportunity to explore the American POW story. This is truly an appropriate exhibit for the Frontiers of Flight Museum. Since the advent of the use of aircraft as weapons of war, many American POWs have been aircrew members who crash-landed or bailed out behind enemy lines. There is an extensive educational value to this exhibit, especially for younger generations who may not have a good understanding about this facet of America’s armed conflicts. They also may not understand that in this context, the “prisoners” were not criminals, but American heroes who resisted their captors while upholding the U.S. Military Code of Conduct. The lighting in the exhibit is subdued to reflect the gloom of the POW camp environment and the prisoners’ existence. Toward the end of the exhibit, a highlighted “FREEDOM” graphic signals the way to the exit as additional graphics celebrate the POWs’ eventual repatriation. The exhibit includes sections on Capture, Prison Life, Those Who Wait, and Freedom, and displays artifacts and audio-visual interviews from actual prisoners of war which serves as a memorial to all American prisoners of war.

We will be honoring the Vietnam War Veterans who are still with us. We are also recognizing the veterans who were killed in action and one who is missing in action, plus the ones who have died since the war. All will be given certificates and pins. We have a Vietnam War Veterna who will give a moving speech.

Display at the Museum will honor Vietnam veterans,

To present and thank those Vietnam veterans and also to remember the 4,000 dogs that helped during the conflict.

Recognition ceremony to thank and honor Vietnam veterans.

To thank and honor Vietnam veterans who came to the Traveling Wall that Heals. Supported by a table. Co-Hosted by: Washington Warrior Widows Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Gold Star Wives of America Tahoma Chapter

Quilt making for Vietnam vets in the community including the name and date of service on each one. Then, invited the veteran to a luncheon to present to them with a certificate. This is ongoing.

Six Members of the Capital District of NY AUSA Chapter took part in "The Vietnam in America Memory Course" conducted by Professor Dave Kieran at Skidmore College. A display honoring Vietnam veterans will be made at the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.

The West Texas Collection display included a panel discussion and reception. The display ran from November 17, 2014 through July 31, 2015.

Lt. Colonel Jerry Ericsson (Ret) spoke at Star of Destiny, NSDAR to relay his experiences as a decorated helicopter pilot in Vietnam and how the war forged the future of his life. As a tribute to him, Star of Destiny has purchased an engraved brick in Lt. Col. Ericsson's name and it has been placed in the Vietnam section of the Veteran's War Memorial, Plaza of Liberty in McAllen, Texas

Our DAR chapter's Historic Preservation is collecting questionnaires regarding Vietnam Veterans experiences. This is an ongoing project and will conclude in March 2016. These questionnaires will be converted into a narrative form and compiled for the Katy Library.

The Lapeer County Committee members proposed to the county newspaper that they run an interview of a Vietnam Veteran once a month for the three years of the National Commemoration. The Lapeer County Press agreed and has run full page up to 1 1/4 pages of individual interviews of Lapeer County Vietnam Veterans. The articles have been very educational and have given a very real picture of the war from our heroes eyes. This publication covers more than Lapeer County. Public publication 2015-2018 Anticipated attendance is a guess as I don't know the county distribution hard copy and internet.

The speaker at the NE State Convention for the Daughters of the American Revolution at Friday's Banquet was Yvonne Schilz, Chief, Commemorative Partner Program and POW/MIA Liaison with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration. She talked about her duties, showed a film about Vietnam Veterans and how they were/are treated (everybody was in tears), and then recognized the Veterans and their families of Daughters of the American Revolution. All Veterans were acknowledged, but as she called Vietnam Veterans, they came to the front and our NE State Regent, Kathy Ocasio, shook hands, then presented them with their certificate. Then our National DAR President General. Lynn Forney Young pinned the Vietnam pin on their lapels. There were also several mothers that were recognized who lost their sons or wives who lost their husbands in the Vietnam War. A display of uniforms from the Vietnam War for each branch was on display. Yvonne had a display table showing all the pins, buttons, magnets, etc., during the day. she also answered any questions we had. Yvonne gave my Chapter a box of the pins, etc., at the end of the Convention, as I had not ordered any for a spur-of-the-moment event coming up. She was so helpful and nice. Chapter member Connie Plettner's brother, a Vietnam Veteran, could not make it until the Saturday night banquet. So, they acknowledged him in the same way after the Saturday night program. Elden Andrew Plettner, Jr./Navy E-5/Vietnam 1973/ was awarded his certificate and pin. It was very moving and his sister and Chapter members were very proud.

Presentation of the DoD 50th Anniversary Commemorative Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin to Pentagon visitors.