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History. March 29 was chosen as National Vietnam War Veterans Day because on March 29, 1973, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was disbanded and the last U.S. combat troops departed the Republic of Vietnam. The last unit was elements of MACV's Infantry Security Force (Special Guard), actually special couriers. [citation needed]
Carlson Evans was born and raised on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota and graduated from nursing school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upon graduation, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and served in Vietnam, at age 21, in 1968–1969. She served in the burn unit of the 36th Evacuation Hospital in Vung Tau and at Pleiku in the 71st Evacuation Hospital ...
Veterans may sign up for a flight at northstarhonorflight.org. Donations can be placed on the Web site, or sent to North Star Honor Flight, P.O. Box 321, Adams, MN 5509.
One of them was Paul Everson, a Vietnam veteran from Greenbush, Minnesota, who helped his WWII veteran father Jeff Everson on a flight in 2007. This time around, Paul was the honored vet who asked ...
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 ...
Tuesday was an important day on the calendar for everyone associated with veterans and veterans affairs as March 29 is the anniversary of the end of the United States’ military occupation in ...
The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and ...
The Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum is the principal activity of the Military Historical Society of Minnesota (MHSM), a non-profit educational organization chartered to preserve and explain Minnesota ’s military history. It is federally recognized as a charitable 501 (c) (3) organization. MHSM operates the library, archive and museum as ...