Posted on 08/13/2010 8:04:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog
War is never a lukewarm topic of discussion – most are either for it or against it, none lacking opinions. War may be between countries, but in the trenches it is about the people: troops on the ground, in the air, on the sea. It is people who fight, people who are wounded, people who come home to loved ones – or not.
Such casualties are not forgotten, but live on in memories others cherish as the bodies rest in graves. Birthdays are remembered and anniversaries marked in a myriad of ways as families honor those who served.
The U.S. honors soldiers who died in Vietnam at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Completed in 1982, it will soon have a 20,000-square-foot underground education center to go along with it. Exhibits and photographs will tell the stories of the people who served in one of this country’s most unpopular wars.
Jan Scruggs is the original founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and now serves as president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center. He is in Austin this week to kick off the “ Texas Challenge,” a matching grant project that looks to raise $1 million from Texans to help build the new center.
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