For Immediate Release
May 27, 2010		 Contact: Lisa Gough
(202) 393-0090, ext. 109
 

Media Advisory
JOINT CHIEFS CHAIR TO ADDRESS THOUSANDS AT THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FOR THE ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
Monday, May 31 at 1:00 p.m.
 

What:

  

Thousands of veterans, families and friends from around the country will come to Washington, D.C. for the annual Memorial Day Observance at The Wall, co-hosted by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and the National Park Service.
   

Who:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featured speakers will be:
• Adm. Michael G. “Mike” Mullen, USN, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
  will be the keynote speaker.
• Lt. Col. Mary T. Carlisle, USAF, Chief Nurse and Chief of Education and
  Training, 579th Medical Group, Bolling Air Force Base.
• Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA, (Ret.).
• Diane Carlson Evans, founder and president, Vietnam Women’s Memorial
   Foundation.
• John Piltzecker, superintendent, National Mall and Memorial Parks, National
   Park Service.
• Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Memorial Fund, will be the
   master of ceremonies.
• The pledge of allegiance will be led by Thomas Tradewell, commander-in-
   chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA.
• Lt. Col. James D. Gray, chaplain in the Mobilized U.S. Army Reserve, will
  provide the invocation.

The names of six serviceman recently added to The Wall will be read by their family members during the Memorial Day ceremony:

• Lance Cpl. John Granville, USMC, Los Angeles, Panel 56W, Line 34;
• Lance Cpl. Clayton Hough Jr., USMC, Holyoke, Mass., Panel 8W, Line 3;
• Cpt. Edward F. Miles, USA, Manhasset, N.Y., Panel 26W, Line 55;
• Sgt. Michael J. Morehouse, USA, Covington, Ky., Panel 26W, Line 1;
• Lt. Col. William L. Taylor, USA, Tampa, Fla., Panel 7W, Line 81; and
• Cpl. Ronald M. Vivona, USMC, Suffolk, N.Y., Panel 50E, Line 36.

Eight-year-old violin prodigy Brianna Kahane will perform “America the Beautiful” during the ceremony and a selection of other songs before the ceremony begins.
   
When: Monday, May 31, at 1:00 p.m.
   
Where:
 		 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Constitution Ave. and 21st St. NW, Washington, D.C.
   

Web cast:

 

 The Memorial Day Ceremony can be seen on TV Worldwide’s Web site, www.usvets.tv, beginning on Wednesday, June 2.

Sponsors:    

 

   

Clark Charitable Foundation
Washington Marriott
TV Worldwide and its Internet TV channel for American veterans, USVets.TV
Base Technologies Inc.
   

NOTICE:

 

 

 

 Restoration work on the Three Servicemen statue began this week and will last approximately six weeks. The statue will be open during the Memorial Day ceremony.  A shelter to contain the work has been erected around the statue, but three seven-foot windows in the structure give visitors a total view of the Three Servicemen and will allow them to watch the progress of this important restoration project.

 
Established in 1979, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., promoting healing and educating about the impact of the Vietnam War.  Authorized by Congress, its most recent initiative is building The Education Center at The Wall, an underground facility near the Memorial that is designed to add faces to all the names on The Wall and tell their stories.  Other Memorial Fund initiatives include educational programs for students and teachers, a traveling Wall replica that honors our nation's veterans and a humanitarian and mine-action program in Vietnam.
 

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