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Los Altos Post 558

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Enjoy some pictures below of our Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Dinner held on April 2, 2025. 

Thanks to Pasta Market for subsidizing the meal; and to Kristie, Connie and Harriett of San Jose Vietnamese Tango & Friends for appetizers and catering services.  Thanks to Alec Lange of the Vietnam War Commemoration Office for providing lapel pins, display, and speaking at the event.  Thanks to VA Volunteer, Jim Husing, for providing Agent Orange pins from orangeheartmedal.org.  Heartfelt thanks to Dennis Whittaker of Vietnam Veterans of America #201 for being our keynote speaker and sharing the warmth and wisdom of his experience.  Special thanks to Kristie of the San Jose Vietnamese Tango & Friends for expressing her gratitude to the Vietnam Veterans.  Finally, thanks to Melanie Ercoli, Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution and volunteers Nancy Schutt, Alice Mansell, Kathy Wright and Liz Lally; and Los Altos Post 558 for co-sponsoring the event, which provided a free dinner to all Vietnam Veterans attending.  At this event, pins and medals were given to Vietnam Veterans and those affected by Agent Orange, and to members of the South Vietnamese Military (allies) for their service.   (Pictures coming)