Vietnam Memorial Education Center

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Vietnam Memorial Education Center

Description

Jan Scruggs, President and Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, proposed in 2000 to build an education center focusing on veterans' service in the wars following Vietnam. The planned center would have been located across the street from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It will display some objects that visitors have left at the Wall since 1982. Congress approved of the center in 2003, but the project did not break ground until 2012. In 2018, the VVMF announced their decision to cancel the building project, focusing instead on digital resources and online exhibits.

Creator

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

Coverage

2000-present

Source

Images created by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, via Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

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