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Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the nation's only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated to the needs of Vietnam-era veterans and their families. VVA's founding principle is "Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another."
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On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to document war crimes that they had participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam. During the next three days, more than 100 Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gave anguished, emotional testimony describing hundreds of atrocities against innocent civilians in South Vietnam, including rape, arson, torture, murder, and the shelling or napalming of entire villages. The witnesses stated that these acts were being committed casually and routinely, under orders, as a matter of policy. In April, the VVAW stormed Washington in a week-long protest. At the height of it, spokesman John Kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to accuse the United States military of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam. The appearance launched Kerry's political career.
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The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) announced today that Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris will receive the Patrick J. Leahy Humanitarian Award for her tireless efforts to focus attention on the plight of landmine survivors worldwide. VVAF supporters, including Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), will pay tribute to Harris Tuesday, November 12, at a benefit event at the Birchmere Music Hall.
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Desire for a hometown visit of The Moving Wall was so high the waiting list became long. In 1987, Vietnam Combat Veterans built a second structure of The Moving Wall. A third structure was added in 1989. In 2001, one of the structures was retired due to wear.
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Edward F. Palm is a university professor, dean, and a retired U.S. Marine major who served in Vietnam with the Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP). Also, a photographer and writer, Professor Palm's website includes photographs from his time in Vietnam and his recent return journey as well as a recounting the experiences in the essays Tiger Papa Three: A Memoir of the Combined Action Program and Tiger Papa Three Revisited.
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As a footnote; Much conjecture has arisen concerning the British SAS fighting in Vietnam. Successive British Governments have repeatedly denied the involvement of British troops anywhere in the Vietnam theatre of operations. These denials are now looking decidedly shabby on two fronts. It is now common knowledge that some Royal Navy surface vessels and Royal Navy personnel were in Vietnam and trained Americans to use the fast attack craft that were used extensively on the Mekong Delta and other inland waterways. The second part is that there is now no doubt that an elite unit of British soldiers fought in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967. It does ... seem that this unit was not from the British SAS but an equally well trained and elite unit from the UK. Uncorroborated though compelling evidence gleaned from all sides of the conflict, point to this unit carrying out operations against both Viet Cong irregulars and regular North Vietnamese Army units with a very good record of success.
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