The Vietnam War will be remembered in March in Lemon Grove.
The Lemon Grove Historical Society and the Lemon Grove Library will host “Vietnam Remembered” at 2p.m. on Mar. 26 at the library in observation of national Vietnam Veterans Day on Mar. 29.
The program will include a 10-minute overview of the war by a visiting historian, a screening of the 1970 documentary “Different Sons” and Q&A with the filmmaker Jack Ofield, and a primary focus on the memories and viewpoints of Vietnam veterans and nurses and their families. The program will be videotaped for posterity by LGHS’ videographer-in-residence Robert Stuckey.
There will be a display of veterans’ memorabilia, along with photographs, documents and books about the 20-year war that sacrificed more than 58,000 U. S. military and nurses (with over 1,600 missing in action) between 1962-1975, and millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians between 1955 and the fall of Saigon in 1975.
It has been 45 years since the making of “Different Sons,” 43 years since the end of America’s military involvement in Vietnam, and 40 years since the fall of Saigon and the chaos that ensued in the immediate aftermath.
For more information, call (619) 460-4353.
