January 26, 2017
Chapter 907 donated $2, 000 to the Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation’s Veteran’s Memorial Scholarship Fund in Gardner, MA . The chapter has been supporting the scholarship for several years. The scholarship also serves to…
January 3, 2017
Fresno, California, Chapter 933 recently presented its annual $500 scholarship award to Harry Khattavong, who came to this country with his family from Laos. The young man served for three years in the U.S. Army…
November 28, 2016
Pathfinders Chapter 195 held a Walk-A-Thon in Zephyrhills, FL and raised over $1400 from pledges. Chapter 195, an incarcerated Vietnam Veterans of America chapter, is located in the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution (ZCI). Mrs. Maynor, the…
November 23, 2016
Blue-Gray Chapter 628 of Princeton, WV helped sponsor a canned food drive at local schools in Virginia and West Virginia benefiting the outreach activities of Bluefield Union Mission. Bluefield Union Mission is a not for…
October 20, 2016
Fourth grade students in Allen County, OH and Auglaize County, OH will receive coloring books from Chapter 89 in time for Veterans Day. The chapter will distribute over 2, 100 coloring books with pictures and…
September 29, 2016
Central New Hampshire Chapter 41 is working closely with the Southern New Hampshire Library Collaborative’s project on Vietnam veterans called “Community Stories: Soldiers Home and Away” in Bow, NW . Nine libraries and one regional…
May 2, 2016
The veterans from Chapter 20 in Rochester, NY have been volunteering their stories with the juniors of Churchville-Chili High School for seven years. It is an on-going tradition that was begun upon the invitation of…
April 5, 2016
Seven members of the Daytona Beach Chapter 1048 helped teacher Chase Tramont tell the story of sacrifice made by nearly 58, 000 Americans in the Vietnam War. At Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange,…
February 3, 2016
BY JAKE SCHUESSLER “He’s a teacher, you know?” That was how Lloyd Gray Taylor’s wife, Linda, answered when I called to speak to him. I should’ve known better than to call before 3 p.m. on…
November 6, 2015
Chapter 939 of Hays, KS recently awarded four $500 scholarships to area students. For the past seven years, the chapter has offered scholarships to high school students residing in a county with a paying VVA chapter member. To…