Vietnam Vet and AFA Leader Represents Air Force Heritage at Texas Museum April 16, 2025 Col. Mark Tarpley, USAF (Ret.), a veteran of the Vietnam War, spoke at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Greenville,...
Honoring Our Heritage: A Moment of Gratitude February 24, 2025 A heartwarming moment unfolded at Mission Bar-B-Q in Fredericksburg, Va., when AFA’s D.W. Steele Chapter President Lloyd Swede honored two...
As a Child, I Wore this Vietnam POW’s Name on a Bracelet. 50 Years Later, I Met Him January 30, 2024 On January 13, 2024, the Air & Space Forces Association capped off a year-long remembrance marking the 50th Anniversary of...
CAP Cadets Support AFA’s Vietnam 50th Anniversary Celebration at National Cathedral January 30, 2024 Civil Air Patrol’s Mid-Atlantic Region was proud to support AFA’s 50th Anniversary Celebration of Character and Courage patriotic service at...
AFA’s Year-Long Vietnam War Commemoration Reaches Powerful Conclusion at National Cathedral January 19, 2024 Hundreds gathered at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13 for a special ceremony honoring Vietnam Veterans, former...
AFA National Director, West Area, Honors 24 Retired Vietnam Vets October 11, 2023 On Oct. 4, Bobi Oates, AFA National Director, West Area, presented Vietnam Veteran lapel pin to the Veterans at the...
Vietnam-Era Vets Honored Aboard ‘Viking Neptune’ September 27, 2023 My wife, Teresita, and I were on the 2022-2023 Viking World Cruise aboard the ‘Viking Neptune.’ We ran into an...
Five Vietnam War POWs Honored at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference September 21, 2023 The Air & Space Forces Association recognized American prisoners of war during its 2023 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, as...
Welcoming Heroes Home, 50 Years Later: AFA Gathers to Remember Vietnam May 17, 2023 The west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., transformed into “Camp Legacy” for three days in May in...
‘Resist, Survive, Return with Honor’: Surviving the Hanoi Hilton May 17, 2023 Fifty years after surviving the horrors of the Hanoi Hilton, four former Vietnam prisoners of war stood on the stage...
