The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Advisory Fund is pleased to invite everyone to attend our Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday May 26, 2008 at 12:00 PM (noon) at the Memorial, Front & Spruce Sts., and honor the 646 Philadelphians lost in that conflict, as well as all of those who died in service of their country.
This is an especially exciting year for us in that we will be starting our work on the restoration and preservation of the Memorial, after 20 years of neglect. We celebrated a successful launch of our "Duty to Remember Campaign" last year on the 20th anniversary of the Memorial and raised $500,000 funds to start repairs and improvements of the site.
Please Note: Free parking has been secured in an area close to the Memorial on Front Street and Spruce Street. The free parking spaces are limited and are available on a first come first serve basis.
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They came from the diverse neighborhoods in this "city of neighborhoods" -- Fishtown, North Philly, Mayfair, Roxborough, Olney, Fairmount, South Philly, Kensington, Germantown -- where they had started their lives, careers and families. Among them were 54 alumni of Thomas Edison School, which sustained the largest number of Vietnam war casualties of any high school in the nation; 27 alumni of Father Judge High School; and eight former students of St. Leo's Elementary School in Tacony.