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.
Looking back
But lest you think all that success is the result of some high-powered staff of fundraising pros, take a look back at VVMF's somewhat inauspicious start.
Spurred by the memory of the many friends he watched die in Vietnam, Scruggs returned to the U.S. determined to memorialize the 58,272 American servicepeople who never returned. His first efforts at garnering support for a memorial got a less-than-enthusiastic response from fellow vets who thought it was more important to provide better benefits for those returning from Vietnam than to build a memorial.
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