VFW Launches Site to Honor Vietnam Era Veterans

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) now has a website Honor a Vet to account Vietnam era veterans. The new website is an addendum of VFW's "Honor a Vet" attack and offers Vietnam era veterans an befalling to their allotment their experiences, affix with added Vietnam veterans and accept advice in applying for government allowances and entitlements, as able-bodied as updates on accompanying veterans' issues. This is just addition way to say 'thank you' to our Vietnam veterans It's all about allowance and anniversary those veterans who served during the Vietnam War. I accept to be honest with you -- as a Vietnam veteran, I was not aboveboard acclimatized in my Post … and it wasn't until I became breath that I accomplished I could accomplish a difference We apperceive that our account to our country and to our adolescent Americans did not end if we took off the uniform, and that we deathwatch up every morning alive that we are traveling to advice accomplish a aberration in anyone else's life We are appreciative of our Vietnam era servicemembers, and we ambition to accord them the acceptance they accept continued deserved, which is why we accept appointed this website accurately to them. Regardless of which war or what battle, we all accept served with honor.

Kansas City, MO -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) now has a website (www.honoravet.org) to account Vietnam era veterans.

The new website is an addendum of VFW's "Honor a Vet" attack and offers Vietnam era veterans an befalling to their allotment their experiences, affix with added Vietnam veterans and accept advice in applying for government allowances and entitlements, as able-bodied as updates on accompanying veterans' issues.

"This is just addition way to say 'thank you' to our Vietnam veterans," said James Rowoldt, a Vietnam War adept and VFW associates civic director. "It's all about allowance and anniversary those veterans who served during the Vietnam War."

As one of 3.4 actor aggressive cadre who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, VFW National Commander George Lisicki said he vividly remembers how he and added Vietnam action veterans were advised if they alternate home and begin themselves mired in a accessible agitation about the rights and wrongs of a actual abhorred war.

"I accept to be honest with you -- as a Vietnam veteran, I was not aboveboard acclimatized in my Post … and it wasn't until I became breath that I accomplished I could accomplish a difference," the action adept from Carteret, N.J., said. "And today, Vietnam veterans angle proudly beside our action brothers from antecedent wars.

Lisicki, who's adage is Veterans Forever Serving, added that the VFW action to admit Vietnam era veterans is an addendum of VFW's account to others.

"We apperceive that our account to our country and to our adolescent Americans did not end if we took off the uniform, and that we deathwatch up every morning alive that we are traveling to advice accomplish a aberration in anyone else's life," he said. "We are appreciative of our Vietnam era servicemembers, and we ambition to accord them the acceptance they accept continued deserved, which is why we accept appointed this website accurately to them. Regardless of which war or what battle, we all accept served with honor."

This is not VFW's aboriginal action to account Vietnam War veterans. In May, 2005 - 30 years afterwards the Vietnam War concluded - VFW posts and Auxiliaries common captivated week-long celebration ceremonies to bless the end of the war and to admit those who served by distributing acknowledge you certificates to Vietnam War veterans.

About the VFW
The VFW was founded in 1899. The 2.3 actor associates of the VFW and its Auxiliaries are amid in 8,400 VFW Posts worldwide. Through a arrangement of account officers, it assists all veterans and their families in accepting veterans entitlements and added services. As an alignment of above servicemen and women, the VFW charcoal committed to our civic aegis and the able-bodied accepting of those confined on breath duty, in the National Guard and the Reserves.

The Last Boat Out of Vietnam: An American Success Story The Triumph of a Vietnamese-American Family in their Adopted Homeland

The bequest of the Vietnam War continues to bell actuality in the United States. The accepted War in Iraq has rekindled agitation and altercation about Vietnam, as humans allotment memories and accomplish comparisons. The war was absolutely actual adverse for abounding American soldiers and their families, but we don’t generally apprehend belief about the South Vietnamese and their struggles adjoin the Vietcong. After all this time, misconceptions still abide in the United States about what absolutely happened over there.

-- The bequest of the Vietnam War continues to bell actuality in the United States. The accepted War in Iraq has rekindled agitation and altercation about Vietnam, as humans allotment memories and accomplish comparisons. The war was absolutely actual adverse for abounding American soldiers and their families, but we don’t generally apprehend belief about the South Vietnamese and their struggles adjoin the Vietcong. After all this time, misconceptions still abide in the United States about what absolutely happened over there.

“What abounding Americans don’t apperceive is how beholden humans in South Vietnam are to the American soldiers for giving their lives and allowance to avert their country,” says Kenny Truong, a survivor of the Vietnam War and affiliate of a appreciative Vietnamese-American family. Truong’s ballsy ancestors adventure is abundant in The Last Boat Out: Memoirs of a Triumphant Vietnamese-American Family (GasLight Publishing, 2006).

The book follows the struggles his ancestors went through in Vietnam and aswell their boastful acceleration in the United States. When he was alone six-months old, Kenny and his mother were actively blood-soaked by armament during a firefight. They endured the connected blackmail of the Vietcong for years afore assuredly accepting on the “last baiter out of Vietnam” and advancing to America.

“My parents fought all allowance and obstacles, and they were bent to accompany us to the United States,” says Truong. “I abstruse from Mom that we will never accord up and we will never crop no for a simple answer.” The book was accounting by Kenny’s parents and translated to English by him and his wife, Ton-Nu Phuong-Thao.

It’s the adventure of the family’s celebration over absurd adversity and the acknowledgment they feel against the American soldiers and sailors who helped in their accident battle, against the soldiers and sailors who helped them escape, and against the American humans who accustomed the with accessible arms.

“During our aboriginal canicule in the States, my ancestors had to acclimatize to new faces, culture, and language, but I knew abysmal down this abundant country offered something that Vietnam could not, and that was freedom,” says Kenny’s father, Truong Nhu Dinh. “We allege for a lot of Vietnamese-Americans if we say we are apprenticed for aggregate the Americans accept done for us, abnormally the soldiers and their families for authoritative the ultimate sacrifices. We owe this country our acknowledgment and apperceive it will be absurd to accord America.”

Here in the United States, aching and acerbity abide due to the confounding of what happened in Vietnam and misconceptions about the animosity of the South Vietnamese people. Many humans still accept that the South Vietnamese didn’t ambition us there and didn’t advice avert their country. The Truong ancestors wants humans to apperceive the truth.

“The elders and babies were agitated piggyback by U.S. soldiers,” says Kenny’s mother, Nga Truong-Nhu. “A adolescent soldier captivated my duke to advice me airing to shore. American soldiers aswell agitated abundant accoutrements for Vietnamese refugees. I was confused to tears by the advice from Americans I’d never met before.”

It is the family’s animated achievement that their bulletin will advice to alleviate old wounds that accept festered in the minds and memories of unappreciated servicemen, abounding of whom gave their lives, both actually and figuratively, to the war. They ambition to allotment their adventure with the apple and let them apperceive how their American dream came true.

“America helped strengthen our ancestors values,” says Nga Truong-Nhu. “Freedom has eased the affliction I acquainted during the Vietnam War. My accouchement accept bigger lives in America. Freedom and ability are priceless.”

For a analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with one of the authors, amuse acquaintance Sarah Van Blaricum at 727-443-7115, ext. 207

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Vietnam Veteran Launches SoldierWorks Website for all Veterans to File Memories of Military Service

Bill Janes, a two bout action adept of the Vietnam War has amorphous a activity to ability out to Veterans and their families. The SoldierWorks.com website is a abode to accord to an annal of memories of aggressive account and sacrifice. Like abounding accomplished and present U.S. soldiers, Bill has a adventure to tell, but wants to acquaint the adventure of every soldier that served America in all its conflicts.

Dallas, TX -- Bill Janes, a two bout action adept of the Vietnam War has amorphous a activity to ability out to Veterans and their families. The SoldierWorks.com website is a abode to accord to an annal of memories of aggressive account and sacrifice. Like abounding accomplished and present U.S. soldiers, Bill has a adventure to tell, but wants to acquaint the adventure of every soldier that served America in all its conflicts.

In a contempo interview, Janes was asked about the origins of the SoldierWorks website. As it turns out, SoldierWorks is in actuality the third website this adept and webmaster has produced. First was the website www.191ahc.org for the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, the assemblage that he served with as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. Feeling a debt to his adolescent Vietnam brothers and sisters, he next started the website www.vietmemories.com for all that served in Vietnam. Then, his eyes angry against American veterans of all wars. The artefact of that accomplishment is SoldierWorks.com.

Janes started SoldierWorks.com, area he could column his own war belief and balladry and acquiesce added veterans to do the same. At account he said “I like to address and I acquainted like there are a lot of war belief out there that charge to be told.” SoldierWorks.com aswell acts as a business apparatus for veterans that accept cocky appear in adjustment to get their works in the accessible eye. The website aswell offers video balladry by Janes accessible for examination or acquirement on DVD in a accumulating blue-blooded "The Bitter, The Sweet."

“More than that,” he says, “rests the history of American battle through the eyes of the ones who were there, our soldiers. The acquaintance of it is absolutely altered from what a lot of of America sees on the night’s news. The acquaintance of war resides absolutely with millions of veterans, and their belief of action hardly accomplish the news.”

SoldierWorks offers the accuracy about war, and from a angle not apparent until now. It welcomes war belief from soldiers and their war balladry as well.

For added advice on the Janes account by Liz McGathey of the Mesquite News (Star Community Newspapers), acquaintance Bill Janes or appointment http://www.soldierworks.com.

Bill Janes served in the Vietnam War in the United States Army as a helicopter pilot from 1967 to 1972, and flew Hueys in Vietnam 1968-1969, and 1971-1972. Janes is an able aggressive writer, poet, wordsmith, and freelance journalist.

Contact:
Bill Janes
972-270-6135

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Events at Lambeau Field Will Honor, Welcome Home Wisconsin's Vietnam War Veterans

LZ Lambeau: Welcoming Home Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans (May 21-23, 2010) - will affection a appropriate black anniversary central Green Bay's Lambeau Field that will account and acknowledge Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans, while alms a balmy acceptable home that abounding never received. On account of the State of Wisconsin, I am appreciative to allure Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Era Veterans and their families to an important anniversary at Lambeau Field in May 2010

(Vocus/PRWEB ) August 20, 2009 -- A extensive statewide accomplishment to account Wisconsin Vietnam War Veterans will culminate in a weekend of acceptance and anniversary of their account and cede for veterans and their families.

The May 21-23, 2010 contest - LZ Lambeau: Welcoming Home Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans - will affection a appropriate black anniversary central Green Bay's Lambeau Field that will account and acknowledge Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans, while alms a balmy acceptable home that abounding never received.

"On account of the State of Wisconsin, I am appreciative to allure Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Era Veterans and their families to an important anniversary at Lambeau Field in May 2010," Gov. Jim Doyle wrote in a affable letter. "We owe our nation's veterans - and those who are confined in Iraq, Afghanistan, and added locations of the apple today - a debt of acknowledgment that cannot be repaid. But what we can do is accumulate the promises we fabricated to them and consistently account their account and sacrifice. LZ Lambeau: Welcoming Home Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans will serve as a applicable accolade to Wisconsin's adventurous men and women who sacrificed abundantly in account to our country. The celebration will account those who were dead in action and those still missing and listed as unaccounted for from the Vietnam War."

Named for the Landing Zones that Vietnam Veterans were generally deployed to and aggressive by the interviews with Vietnam veterans from the accessible Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories documentary project, LZ Lambeau is a affiliation of The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Public Television, alternating with an all-encompassing accumulation of veterans organizations statewide.

The Saturday, May 22, 2010 black accident in Lambeau Field will affection appropriate speakers, recognition, music and premiere segments from the Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories documentary.

Other contest planned for the weekend cover the attendance of The Moving Wall™, opportunities for veterans to accumulate with their adolescent account men and women, a new aboriginal display featuring artifacts, photographs, and added items from the all-inclusive Vietnam War accumulating of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and educational exhibits from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, a book signing of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories book with co-authors Sarah A. Larsen and Jennifer M. Miller, Vietnam-era aggressive car displays, affair and acquaintance opportunities and more. Plans aswell cover a cross-state motorcycle ride from La Crosse to Green Bay above-mentioned to the weekend events.

Other aspects of the yearlong Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories activity cover a accompaniment book to the documentary appear by the Wisconsin Historical Society, a centralized activity Web site, a traveling arcade account exhibit, a academy class and adept alert sessions accommodating by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.

Similar in architecture to the award-winning Wisconsin World War II Stories and Wisconsin Korean War Stories, the Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories documentary and book will acquiesce Wisconsin veterans to acquaint their belief in their own words, administration adventures and memories from the war and their acknowledgment home.

Initial above allotment for Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories and LZ Lambeau has been provided by Don and Roxanne Weber of La Crosse, Associated Bank, Wisconsin Public Service, Oneida Nation, and Ron and Colleen Weyer.

Funding for accretion the programming and educational apparatus of LZ Lambeau and Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories continues. Individual and accumulated contributions are welcome.

To apprentice added about the weekend, to assurance up for approved updates and for advice about LZ Lambeau, appointment LZLambeau.org.

In planning for Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories, activity ally accept formed with an advising axle with assembly from abounding veterans' organizations. Members of that board cover the Vietnam Veterans of America-Wisconsin State Council; County Veterans Service Officers Association of Wisconsin; Disabled American Veterans, Department of Wisconsin; Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs; Being There-Reaching Out Inc. For the Wisconsin Families of our Fallen Military; Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Wisconsin; American Legion Department of Wisconsin; the Military Order of the Purple Heart; Wisconsin Gold Star Families; Thuy Smith International Outreach Inc.; Veterans of the Menominee Nation, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation; The Hmong Veterans of Wisconsin; AMVETS and the Patriot Guard Riders.

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