May 14, 2023
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is putting together “Virginia and the Vietnam War,” an extensive exhibit dealing with Virginians' experiences during the war. The exhibit, which will open on November 23, 2024, and…
October 21, 2021
Robert O. Muller—better known to everyone in the veterans community as Bobby—will be remembered as the founder, in 1978, of Vietnam Veterans of America. VVA arose from those more-than-humble beginnings to become the only congressionally…
October 15, 2020
The Board of Directors of the National Medal of Honor Museum and Arlington, Texas, Mayor Jeff Williams recently unveiled a rendering of the museum, which is scheduled to open in Arlington in 2024. The modern,…
February 18, 2019
"Remembering Vietnam: Twelve Critical Episodes in the Vietnam War," a pioneering exhibit that opened at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day 2017 and was slated to end on January 6 this year,…
October 17, 2018
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel will be the guest speaker at an event honoring his fellow Vietnam War veterans on November 14 at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The event will be held as part…
November 11, 2017
Yes, those are Vietnam War era helicopters parked on the grounds of the National Archives of the United States in Washington. The three choppers were installed November 6 outside the imposing Archives building on Constitution…
January 4, 2017
Ed Miller, a history professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, directs a unique and innovative program at the college: The Dartmouth Vietnam Project, an oral history endeavor that trains Dartmouth undergrad students to interview…
July 5, 2016
VVA life member Paul Iacovello, who was a medic in Vietnam in 1962-63, created art paper by turning his war uniform into pulp, then printed images of photos he took in Vietnam on that paper.…
January 2, 2013
On Veterans Day 2001, as we noted in our Arts of War magazine column, PBS-TV's "American Experience" series ran a 60-minute documentary called War Letters. The doc, which had no narrator, was a mixture of home…
June 13, 2011
It was 40 years ago today, on June 13, 1971, that The New York Times published excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, the until-then secret history of the Vietnam War commissioned by DoD. That set in…