Events

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 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

Interview inserts into local papers on Vietnam Veteran interviews.

1- To Thank and honor Veterans of the Vietnam War, for their service and sacrifices. 2- April 18, 2015-We will present the Patriot Guard Riders with a Community Service Award and honor all the Vietnam Veterans Present. 3-Summer 2015-Brat picnic give-way to Vietnam Veterans to acknowledge and honor their service.

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.

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.

We have contacted local Retirement Homes and the local VA to come to their site and have a program to honor Vietnam Veterans and their families. We feel this is truly reaching out into the community to honor those Vietnam Veterans who are unable to attend events.

Can you add sending 1 set of posters (every one of them). This is for an exhibit he is doing in San Diego that will go till 2017, so I think based on what he’s doing, we can send 1 of everything. Opening ceremony of new permanent exhibit on the Vietnam Experience on the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. Exhibits, displays, timelines, oral histories, and personal stories tell the experiences of San Diegans in the Vietnam War on 4/30/2015. Exhibit opens to public on May 1st, 2015.

This summer in recognition of the 50th anniversary of US involvement in Vietnam, the First Division Museum will present the exhibit, Five Years in the Jungle: Vietnam Experiences of the 1st Infantry Division 1965-1970. The exhibit will include an array of artifacts collected by 1ID units and individuals during service in Vietnam. A significant portion of those objects will be on display in a representation of the division’s in-country museum where visitors will experience how soldiers would learn about the threats they would face in Vietnam. In 1967, the 3rd Brigade created a museum as part of the Combat Introduction Course to help familiarize new soldiers with the weapons, uniforms, equipment, and methods of the NVA and VC. Division HQ took this model and created a museum that served the same purpose for all soldiers who joined the 1st ID. The museum recreation will even include several pieces from the original in-country museums. Another exciting component of the exhibit will be a floor map of the division’s AO. The illustrated map will colorfully depict III Corps Tactical Zone highlighting 1ID areas of operation and will include an inset of both North and South Vietnam for context. Visitors will be able to walk on the map to get a close up look at locations. Surrounding the map will be artifact clusters that tie to specific battles, individuals, locations and unique stories highlighting the entire five year period of the 1st ID’s deployment. Through these artifacts, including significant amounts of captured material, the story of soldiers engaging a skilled and determined enemy will come into focus. In addition, there will be a timeline highlighting important events during the Vietnam War, photo enlargements that portray the different environments found throughout III Corps and a music interactive that will allow visitors to listen to music and create their own playlists. Visitors should leave the exhibit with a better understanding of the experiences of 1st Division soldiers during the Vietnam War and a better understanding of those difficult years.

The New York National Guard's Military History Museum partners with Skidmore College to open a new exhibit May 1 honoring the service of the Capital Region's Vietnam Veterans. Students from the Skidmore College History course, "The Vietnam War in American Memory," taught by Professor David Kieran, gathered the oral histories of 11 Vietnam era-veterans from Saratoga Springs. A joint effort between the students and the NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center will be featured in a new public exhibit through November 2015 as part of Department Skidmore students learning about the Vietnam War in Professor Kieran's course sought out 11 area veterans and completed individual oral history assignments to learn more about Vietnam Veterans' diverse experiences. Through collaboration with Courtney Burns, Military History Director and curator of the NYS Military museum, a collection of the students' work, including veteran artifacts from Vietnam and materials that document their experiences, will be exhibited at the museum. The nation marked the start of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War in 2012 and New York State, the New York National Guard, the City of Saratoga Springs and the Military Museum are all Commemorative Partners with the Department of Defense to honor the service of Vietnam Veterans and their families. Events hosted at the museum are intended to thank and honor veterans of the Vietnam War for their service and sacrifice on behalf of the United States and to thank and honor the families of these veterans. The exhibit featuring the Vietnam Veterans experience and their oral histories will be on display at the museum through Veterans Day 2015.

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.

We will have a sign-up sheet for Vietnam Vets at the American Legion and then we will have a Thank you ceremony where we will honor each with a certificate and a program of thanks. We are also going into retirement homes and following the same procedure

These item will be made available to all Veterans that come into our offices.

The State of Arkansas has in excel of 4,000 Masons and half of them are of the age of Vietnam Veterans. This program will go to the major Jurisdictions within the state located in Little Rock, Springdale/Fayetteville, and Jonesboro and then to the smaller lodges dispersed across the state in 11 different districts.

We have started fundraisers for the dinner that we will be having to honor Vietnam Veterans and their families. Certificates will be handed out to each veteran there or to the family representing the veteran. Our first fundraiser is a Brown Bag it for Veterans (bean soup, cornbread, dessert and drink). We are trying to get the community involved. We will also be handing items out at the Catfish Festival supporting the veterans from Vietnam War.

WAR: RAW Healing Military Trauma Through Expressive Are. Free exhibit at the State of Wisconsin Veterans Museum, which contains multiple exhibit pieces created by Vietnam Veterans. Info at: http://www.wisvetsmuseum.com/exhibitions/temporary/

Each week a different Vietnam veteran will be profiled in full-page newspaper features. The profiles are published online at www.trib.com/honor with additional photos, audio and other assets. in 2017, a hardcover book of all the profiles will be published. A book signing event will be hosted and each veteran featured will be gifted a copy of the book by our sponsors and fellow commemorative committee members.

Honoring the Vietnam Veterans

To honor 300 Vietnam Veterans and their family's and welcome home

The West Virginia Mobile Wall will be display for our 732 Vietnam Veterans who didn't make it home.

To present veterans from Erie Co. New York with certificates from the DAR and label pins to thank them for their service.

Memorial Service held once a month.

Publicly honor and recognize Vietnam Veterans with the DoD Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin and State of Georgia Certificates of Honor. Event will be directly supported by GDVS Central Office Projects & Events Staff and attended by GDVS personnel from Atlanta Central Office or local GDVS Field Offices.

Publicly honor and recognize Vietnam Veterans with the DoD Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin and State of Georgia Certificates of Honor. Event will be directly supported by GDVS Central Office Projects & Events Staff and attended by GDVS personnel from Atlanta Central Office or local GDVS Field Offices.

For my tri-weekly visits to the hospital: passing along to Vietnam Veterans I encounter. The brochures are for the entrance table.

Display set up. Used especially for the 4th of July, and will through Veterans day, distributing pins and stickers.

Display at the Valley County Historical Museum and mementos were passed out.

Display at the Dawson County Historical Society.

The Reprisal Chapter will have a display for the month of August in the window of Sunapee Bank in Newport, NH. This display will thank all Vietnam Veterans and their families with an open letter, as well as the Vietnam War Commemoration Presidential Proclamation, certificate, poster, and flag. On at least one day of August (date tab) Reprisal chapter members will be at the bank to pass out buttons to both veterans and supporters. We are hopeful that this passive posting, combined with the active participation, will honor Newport NH area veterans.

The exhibit, created for J.L. Throckmorton Library by the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, focuses on the relationship between U.S. Army Special Forces (SF) and the Montagnards during the Vietnam War. SF Soldiers trained Montagnards, an indigenous people living Vietnam's mountain highlands, as a part of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) program. As a result, SF Soldiers and Montagnards forged strong bonds. After the war, many Montagnard refugees chose to live in North Carolina to be near their Special Forces comrades. The exhibit features Vietnam era Montagnard weapons and cultural objects.

We are a skilled care Veterans Home currently with 66 Vietnam veterans in residence. We would like to welcome these veterans home with a commemorative pin as well as giving a pin to evety new member as they enter our facility.

The Memorial is open year round to educate the public on the Vietnam War and the veterans who served in it. It is run by veteran volunteers and supported by various veteran organizations.They would like a commemorative flag to fly at the memorial museum.

Series of monthly lectures and discussions, on Marine Corps operations in Viet Nam, 1965-72. This is a duplicate off the event - we have already received maps and posters and tin pins from your office. All we are requesting are the lapel pins, so they may be formally presented to the Viet Nam veterans belonging to the local Marine Corps League chapter, ina ceremony.

The purpose of the event is too honor the many Vietnam Veterans who fought & supported the fight from Grundy County, Missouri. Vietnam Veterans have donated &/or loaned memorabilia now on display for the public to view. Several veterans have volunteered to be museum docents to answer questions from the public about the war effort and their part in it. The museum's Vietnam exhibit hosts 21 panels documenting veteran reflections about the war and how they feel about having fought there today. The museum also has an audio copy of the Tet Offensive as it happened because a soldier was taping a letter home and forgot to turn off the recorder when the call to battle occurred.

Chapter daughters prepared a display at the Heard County Museum featuring local Heard County Veterans' pictures and service information, the Commission Flag, 50th Anniversary information and a big note of Appreciation for all. The display was to be up from April thru September. Notices of the display and invitations to the public to visit were printed in the local newspaper.

Month long display at the library commemorating the Vietnam War.

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 chapter had an exhibit of Vietnam War memorabilia on display at the Putnam Museum. Some items on display were the 50th Commemoration Flag, pictures, uniforms, medals, KIA within a 50-mile radius, Iowa MIA/POWs, and items used by the military in Vietnam.

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.

To draw attention to the service of the Vietnam Veterams and their families. To honor them in the community.

The Witness to WAr Foundation, in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Vietnam War, has conducted, or assisted with, 92 interviews with Vietnam veterans all across America. Martin Madert attended the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Association, Mobile Riverine Force Association, and Combined Action Program reunion in 2015 and preserved the stories of those in attendance. In addition to some individual interviews conducted in veterans' hometowns, these interviews cover a wide variety of experiences that our young soldiers faced between 1961-1975. The response to the project was very positive and the foundation has been invited back to continue its work at their next reunions. Many new contacts were made and made aware of the Commemoration's goals which may lead to further interviews in areas that might have been previously untouched. Locations of interviews conducted: -Peachtree Corners, GA: Aug. 10-14, 2015 with Joe Galloway -Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Assoc. Reunion, Washington, DC: Aug. 25-28, 2015 -Patriots Colony, Williamsburg, VA: Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2015 -Mobile Riverine Force Assoc., Indianapolis, IN: Sept. 3-5, 2015 -Washington, DC: Sept. 21-24, 2015 with Joe Galloway -Georgia: Individuals in Athens, Atlanta, and Columbus -Combined Action Program Reunion, San Diego, CA: Nov. 8-11, 2015 -South Carolina: Individuals in Camden and Charleston: Dec. 2015

The chapter compiled the Illinois Vietnam War Era Honor Roster Volume II to honor these veterans. This book lists Illinois Vietnam veterans and include name, rank, branch of service, service years, and identifies if they veteran was a war veteran or era veteran.

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