Mission Accomplished ... For Now
The Wall’s been built, so what was 
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund 
to do with itself once it achieved 
its original goal? Plenty — and that’s 
just fine with its donors.
Unfortunately, very few of them get to shutter their windows and declare their missions accomplished.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund was one of the lucky ones. Incorporated in 1979, VVMF was founded specifically to build a memorial to the more than 58,000 American servicemen and women who died in the Vietnam War. The Wall was completed in 1982, and the folks at the organization behind it figured there was nothing left to do but close up shop — save for a small staff that was on hand to ensure that the monument was properly maintained.
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