TRIPLE 7s:  VVA Veteran Senior Writer and Arts Editor Marc Leepson was on hand for four days of seminars, presentations, training sessions, and many other events and activities at the VVA National Leadership & Education Conference at the Silver Legacy Hotel and Casino in Reno. He reports that the Conference drew rave reviews from attendees, one of whom called it “one of the best I’ve attended in many years—the best of the best.”

BRICK BY BRICK:  Kathy Strong has traveled the country to honor the memory of Green Beret medic James Moreland, who went missing in February 1968 after an NVA attack on the Lang Viet Special Forces Camp in the Central Highlands and whose remains were identified in 1995. She details her quest to place a memorial brick in his honor at Vietnam Veterans Memorials in all 50 states.                       

POWs NEVER HAVE A NICE DAY:   VVA POW/MIA Committee Chair Grant Coates tells the origin story and the history of the POW/MIA bracelets that swept the nation in the early seventies, beginning with the germ of an idea by two California college students in 1969 to call attention to the issue of American POWS held in North and South Vietnam.

CONNECTING AND HELPING:   The story of Southern Nomad 25 Chapter 1125 in Boca Raton, Florida, which has been serving Vietnam War veterans and their families since 2010 under the leadership of chapter co-founder and president, Norm Dubac, and long-time chapter veterans advocates, Chaplain Alvin Roberts and Director Thomas Yarosz.  

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