The Wall - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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- Anywhere
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- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
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- Hobby
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- Expensed
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 30th October 2020
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The moving story of how Cpl Jan Scruggs a Vietnam Veteran turned his vision of creating a memorial for over 58,000 service personnel killed in the war into reality overcoming numerous bureaucratic hurdles along the way; the competition to select the design for the memorial won by Maya Lin a 21 year old Yale university undergraduate, and the initial opposition to her design by veterans. Other memorials alongside the Wall are covered ; the 3 soldiers and the 3 nurses to commemorate the women killed in the war. Memorabilia left at the Wall commemorating the fallen is highlighted adding a moving tribute by loved ones to the fallen.
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Jeremy Prescott served for 26 years as an Army Officer seeing operational service in Dhofar, Oman and 4 tours in Northern Ireland. After retiring from the Army he was appointed as CEO of a charity covering Leics and Rutland which supported rural communities. In this role he facilitated 6 successful bids to the Lottery for over £1m. In 2013 in order to help communities in their own commemoration of the 100th anniversary of WW1 he developed the “Sacrifice and Remembrance” project delivering presentations on that theme - www.sacrificeandremembrance.com. After retiring from the charity after 18 years he has further developed this project and now presents on 14 different topics. To date these talks have been given in over 450 venues to 16,000 people. As a result of the Covid - 19 crisis he has been offering these presentations via Zoom across the country. He does these presentations entirely on a voluntary basis but encourages donations to Combat Stress - The Veterans Mental Health Charity. To date he has raised over £26,000 for Combat Stress. He now lives in Southsea Hants
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