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2. Vietnam Veterans of America - Wikipedia

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   Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. (VVA) is a national non-profit corporation founded in 1978 in the United States that is committed to serving the needs of all veterans. It is funded without any contribution from any branch of government. VVA is the only such organization chartered by the United States Congress and dedicated to Vietnam War ...

3. Vietnam veteran - Wikipedia

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   A Vietnam veteran is an individual who performed active military, naval, or air service in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. [1] New Zealand Army veteran Rob Munro (left), receiving a Mention-in-dispatch award from Governor-General Patsy Reddy for action in Vietnam. The term has been used to describe veterans who served in the ...

4. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia

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   The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...

5. Leonard Matlovich - Wikipedia

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   Gay rights activist. Technical Sergeant Leonard Phillip Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) [1] was an American Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. [2] He was the first gay service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gays, and perhaps the ...

6. The Spitting Image - Wikipedia

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   The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. [1] The book examines the origin of the ...

7. Jerry Shriver - Wikipedia

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   Jerry Michael Tate Shriver (24 September 1941 – 10 June 1969), also known by his nickname " Mad Dog ", was a master sergeant in the United States Army, Green Beret, and served in MACV-SOG. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][excessive citations] Shriver served in the Vietnam War and took part in operations along the Ho Chi Minh trail, Cambodia and Laos ...