Meetings and Location
Our local Chapter meetings are held every 2nd Tuesday evening of the month at 6PM.  A meal is served at 5:30 and the meeting will follow at 6 PM.

Meeting location is at the First United Methodist Church, 403 South Cornell Avenue, Fritch, Texas.

If you would like more information about our meetings or about the V.V.A. please call Myron Peterson at 806-857-3950.

                                        Vietnam Veterans of America Purpose
The purpose of Vietnam Veterans of America's national organization, the state councils, and chapters is:

To help foster, encourage, and promote the improvement of the condition of the Vietnam veteran.

To promote physical and cultural improvement, growth and development, self-respect, self-
confidence, and use-fullness of Vietnam-era veterans and others.

To eliminate discrimination suffered by Vietnam veterans and to develop channels of communications which will assist Vietnam veterans to maximize self-realization and enrichment of their lives and enhance life-fulfillment.

To study, on a non-partisan basis, proposed legislation, rules, or regulations introduced in any federal, state, or local legislative or administrative body which may affect the social, economic, educational, or physical welfare of the Vietnam-era veteran or others; and to develop public-policy proposals designed to improve the quality of life of the Vietnam-era veteran and others especially in the areas of employment, education, training, and health.

To conduct and publish research, on a non-partisan basis, pertaining to the relationship between Vietnam-era veterans and the American society, the Vietnam War experience, the role of the United States in securing peaceful co-existence for the world community, and other matters which affect the social, economic, educational, or physical welfare of the Vietnam-era veteran or others.

To assist disabled and needy war veterans including, but not limited to Vietnam veterans and their dependents, and the widows and orphans of deceased veterans.

 

                               WHO ARE THE VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA?
Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era and their families.  V.V.A. is organized as a not-for-profit corporation and is tax-exempt under Section 501 (c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.

 

                                             V.V.A.'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLE
                        "Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."

 

                                                             GOALS
V.V.A.'s goals are to promote and support the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans, to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of Vietnam veterans.

 

                                                 OUR FIRST PRINCIPLE
V.V.A. holds as its first principle that the organization is measured by deeds and openness as evidence of the core values of justice, integrity, and meaningful achievement.

 

ORGANIZATION
Over 80,000 individual members.
43 state councils.
525 Chapters.
National board of directors.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Govermental Relatons Advocacy on the range of veterans issues.
National Task Force for Homeless Veterans.
Health care for veterans, including disabled veterans.
Issues pertaining to women and minority veterans.
National scholarship fund.