{"id":7876,"date":"2015-08-18T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2015-08-18T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:31:22","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=7876","title":{"rendered":"Public Encouraged to Submit Photos for Vietnam Veteran \u201cFaces Never Forgotten\u201d Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harrisburg, Pa. \u2013 The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA), in partnership with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), is hoping to locate more than 600 photos of Pennsylvanians who sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of DMVA\u2019s participation in the 50th anniversary of the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, we have partnered with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to encourage the public to support their \u201cFaces Never Forgotten\u201d campaign,\u201d said Maj. Gen. James R. Joseph, adjutant general of Pennsylvania and a Vietnam Veteran. \u201cIf you have a picture of a loved one or fellow veteran whose name is inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., please help us honor these individuals by putting a face with a name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The VVMF is trying to collect photos for each of the 58,307 men and women whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. \u2013 better known as The Wall \u2013 so that\u00a0they can keep the legacies of these service members alive for future generations. Since the photo campaign was launched in October 2009, VVMF has located photos for approximately 41,000 of the names inscribed on the memorial. Of the 3,148 service members from Pennsylvania whose names are on The Wall, 606 photos are still needed.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmva.pa.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx#.VdOFH8qFOM8\" target=\"_blank\">DMVA website <\/a>for a complete list of Pennsylvania service members whose photos are needed. For information about how to add a photograph to the collection visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvmf.org\/how-to-submit\" target=\"_blank\">VVMF website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[1709,1707,1711,1710,1708],"class_list":["post-7876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-department-of-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-dmva","tag-faces-never-forgotten","tag-vietnam-veterans-memorial-fund","tag-vvmf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/VM-DMVA-PA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}