Due to the fact that weather plays a major part with "Welcome Home", the Organizers chose to move the event into a much better weather period. "Welcome Home" will still celebrate Vietnam Veterans Day which falls on March 29th of each year but the change will also allow local communities across this nation to honor their own Vietnam Veterans on March 29th and also allow these Veterans to attend "Welcome Home" which has become a National Annual Event.

Vietnam Veterans Day
By Ron "Scooter" Dyer

Back in 2002 some Vietnam Veteran friends were getting together once a week at a local coffee shop and talk very little about the war.  We would talk about things like, games we played when we got the chance, where we went on R and R. We would talk a lot of how we miss our friends that we made over there, wondering if we would ever see them again, than talk of some of our friends whose names are on the WALL. Times like this is what started me to thinking about what I could do to make like this happen all over or was other Vets doing the same thing elsewhere.
 
In 2004, I decided to make my first trip to the Wall.  By faith I guess, it turned out to be the year they were dedicating the World War II monument,  Since my Dad had served in the Pacific during that war, I went to that dedication so that him not living long enough to see his monument, might see it through my eyes.  The look on those veterans faces will stay with me forever.  After that it was time to go to the Wall and be with my brothers.  This got me thinking more of what could I do.
 
That same year I went to a Veterans Day program and while standing there with five other Nam vets, the Vietnam War was never mentioned. By days end, I told one of my friends I was going to start a day just for us.  While time went by I had talked with others about this and the fire was getting stronger.  Than in 2007 I met Dann Dunham and told him what I would like to do and he told me to come back in 30 days to let him know if I still wanted to do this.  When I went back, I told him it was burning at me even more.  That's when the two of us started on the journey that brought about Vietnam Veterans Day. Click Here for the Complete History.

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