The Laredo Veterans Affairs Committee met this week to address urgent concerns facing the local veteran community and outline future initiatives for veteran organizations. The veteran-focused ...

will be the second-largest in the nation behind the memorial in Washington, D.C. It will honor the more than 58,000 U.S. military personnel who lost their lives during the Vietnam War, including ...

But "personally, it's difficult for me" to make the trip to Washington ... and influence of war and literature on the national memory, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a place apart from monuments ...

The wall honors over 3 million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War and bears the names of ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., dedicated to American soldiers killed in the conflict in Vietnam.

Between 250 and 300 volunteers will be needed while the traveling memorial is in Farmington July 1 through 6 and $22,000 more must be raised to cover insurance, transportation and other fees.

One of the most moving war memorials, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – or "the Wall," as it's commonly referred to – is a long black granite wall with the names of more than 58,000 Americans ...

WASHINGTON (JTA ... for the establishment of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the National Mall here, in part because he wanted to heal the wounds the war opened among Americans.

His name was recorded on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the American ... unaccounted-for soldiers from the Vietnam War. The incident was investigated for decades ...

This memorial also give the veterans a proper welcome home, one that many didn't receive after the war. "We were mistreated and now this is an honor," Driggers said. Many Vietnam veterans were all ...