November 24, 2010
A fire that started late Monday night destroyed the POW/MIA shack that has sat for decades between the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Sometimes known as "The Last Firebase, " the…
July 11, 2010
Vietnam Veterans of America has maintained a clearinghouse of information about state and local Vietnam veterans memorials since the mid-1990's. We have information about scores of memorials in every state at the national office in…
July 8, 2010
Ceremonies today in scorching Washington, D.C., marked the completion of the restoration to its original finish of the "Three Serviceman" statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The $125, 000 project was set in motion by…
May 18, 2010
Planning for the official Texas state Vietnam Veterans Memorial has been going on since 2005 when the Texas Legislature authorized a monument on the grounds of the State Capitol in Austin to honor the Lone…
February 26, 2010
Maya Lin, who designed the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall), was among the honorees last night, February 25, at the White House National Medal of Arts ceremonies. Lin received a 2009 National Medal of…
January 27, 2010
Former Republican U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr. of Maryland, a World War II veteran who opposed the Vietnam War but was one of the moving forces in creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, died January 25.…
September 22, 2009
Last week the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund announced a national call for photographs of the more than 58, 000 men and women whose names are on The Wall in Washington. The photos will be featured…
August 19, 2009
A recent New York Times article reported on the controversy over adding a new monument to the Wichita, Kansas' Veterans Memorial Park. Members of the city's Vietnamese exile community proposed adding a bronze statue of…
July 4, 2009
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the July 8, 1959, deaths of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand and Maj. Dale Buis in Bien Hoa, Vietnam (widely recognized as the first Americans to perish in…
March 18, 2009
The theme of the big, splashy feature article in the March 17 Washington Post Style section on the new exhibit, "May Lin: Systematic Landscapes, " running through July 12 at Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of…