Veterans Services Links

Below is a partial list of web sites of potential interest to Vietnam veterans, including those in the San Diego area and across the country. It is by no means a comprehensive list, so if you would like to see other web sites here, please submit your suggestion to Jim McBride at mcbrides4@cox.net Thank you.

http://www.vva.org The national web site of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) a vast resource for a variety of veteran's services including-but not limited to-help obtaining veterans benefits; subscription newsletter, "The Veteran;" helpconnecting you to a Vietnam veteran, "Did you know my Dad;" referrals to groups like VVA/AVVA, a list of community services non-profit organizations; and more.

http://www.veteranmuseum.org Veterans Museum and Memorial Center provides numerous activities and services that perpetuate the memories of all men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. VVMC maintains a museum presenting permanent, rotating and visiting exhibits of patriotic, military and war-related memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, and other artwork

http://www.vvsd.net/index.htm Vietnam Veterans of San Diego (VVSD) is dedicated to extending assistance to needy and homeless veterans of all wars and eras and their families by providing housing, food, clothing, substance abuse recovery and mental health counseling, job training and job search assistance

http://www.vfw.org National web site for Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), which provides a variety of programs and services which strengthen comradeship among our members, perpetuate the memory and history of our fallen soldiers, foster patriotism, defend the Constitution and promote service to our communities and our country.

http://www.VirtualWall.org The Virtual Wall ® Vietnam Veterans Memorial contains personal remembrances of letters, photographs, poetry, and citations honoring those women and men named on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.

http://www.sci-corp.com/html/vietnam_wall.html Since 1990 Service Corporation International (SCI) has sponsored over 100 exhibitions of a 240-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Local SCI funeral homes and cemeteries, in association with local veterans groups and other community organizations sponsor the events.

http://www.themovingwall.org/docs/skedling.htm "The Moving Wall," created by John Devitt, is the half-size replica of the Washington, DC Vietnam Veterans Memorial that has been touring the country for the past 17 years.

http://www.vvmf.org "The Wall That Heals," is a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. that travels across America to cities and towns along with a Traveling Museum. It is sponsored by the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Fund.

http://www.no-quarter.org Vietnam casualty database, includes search options for the Combat Current Casualties File, the list of U.S. military casualties for the Vietnam War.

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/vetrecs/index.html To request your father's military records, you must use Military Records Request Form 180. Form 180 includes instructions and the address of exactly to whom it must be sent. Please ask for all records.

http://www.sdit.org - Sons & Daughters In Touch (SDIT) is a web site for children of Vietnam veterans who are missing in action or died in Vietnam. It provides links to many military units, scholarship resources. Many military units have associations and newsletters allowing you to join and or place a request, "Looking for veterans that served with my Dad." Things to consider: create a web page in your dad's honor and link to SDIT web site; contact high school or college alumni associations; research your dad's hometown newpaper for obituaries, articles, letters sent home and may be a source of names as potential contacts. Sons & Daughters In Touch …"They Were Our Fathers" email board@sdit

http://www.pow-miafamilies.com site of the National League of POW/MIA Families which is dedicated to helping obtain the release of all prisoners, the fullest possible accounting for the missing and repatriation of all recoverable remains of those who died serving our nation during the Vietnam War.

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/ this is the site of the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, which assists readers in understanding U.S. Government efforts to achieve the fullest possible accounting of our missing in action -- from all wars.

http://www.womensmemorial.org This web site is about the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery where all the women who have served in our nation's armed forces are individually and collectively honored

http://www.archives.gov/facilities/mo/st_louis/,,,,.html This organization helps replace medals awarded while in active service. The request must include a copy of the military service records (DD 214) and contain the signature of the veteran or the signature of the next of kin if the veteran is deceased.

http://alabamavva.tripod.com/ Home page for Alabama state chapter of VVA. Note: author of this site was instrumental in guiding the development of this web site for VVA Chapter 472.

http://www.ratpatrolradio.com "Live365" streaming radio station called "Rat Patrol Radio" plays old standards from the WWII era as well as WWII news broadcasts and on occasion and old time radio shows (eg, complete broadcast day of the D-Day landings

http://nam-vet.net/50000names.htm Remembrance Site