  
Veterans
Advantage was born in 2001 of the experience and vision of its founder and
CEO, Scott Higgins.
To meet its mandate, the commission raised $5 million in less than four
years. Following an international competition, it built a glass
brick-and-granite memorial in lower Manhattan onto which are etched
excerpts of letters and poems written by men and women during their time
in Southeast Asia. It established a "living memorial," and a jobs
program for Vietnam vets. And on May 7, 1985, it held a "Welcome
Home" parade across the Brooklyn Bridge and down lower Broadway—New York’s
"Canyon of Heroes”—in which 25,000 Veterans paraded to the cheering of a
million New Yorkers who paved the route with tons of "ticker tape." |
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