LET'S BUILD A MONUMENT TO THE "OTHER" FORGOTTEN VETERANS
OUR PERMANENTLY DISABLED BROTHERS and SISTERS

The MEMORIAL Needs Your HELP and Your  $$$
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Members and Supporters, the KDVA has taken on this project to help the Disabled Veterans’ LIFE Memorial Foundation create a Memorial in Washington, D.C., to Honor our deceased and 2.3 million living Brothers and Sisters that have put their bodies in harm’s way and sacrificed their limbs and more, and who now carry deep and permanent reminders of their service to our Nation.

We are asking our Members, Supporters and Friends to send a contribution to our DVLM Project Chairman (see below) on behalf of the National Foundation.  The KDVA is collecting these monies and depositing them in a special Memorial fund.  We will keep this project open for 36 months and then make one donation of KDVA plus collected monies to the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation on behalf of the Korea Defense Veterans of America.  Our Korea service has produced a great number of permanently disabled veterans who have never been properly recognized for their sacrifice.  WE MUST DO THIS!

These are the truly forgotten heroes!  Many are living in our VA hospitals or veterans retirement homes, shut off from the very people whose freedoms they fought to defend.  Perhaps they just don’t fit some people’s idea of what a hero is or looks like.  

The Disabled Veterans’ LIFE Memorial Foundation, begun in 1996, and has successfully pushed for federal legislation to designate land for a permanent memorial.  This legislation was passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2000.  Three acres in Washington, D.C., near the U.S. Capitol and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, just one block off the National Mall, will be its permanent site.

The Foundation MUST RAISE $60 MILLION to build this tribute because NO taxpayer funds can be used in the construction.  IT IS UP TO US, the Brothers and Sisters of these forgotten heroes, with civilian help, to raise these funds and bring this long overdue tribute to reality.  LET’S ALL CONTRIBUTE and show our appreciation to those who forever carry the scars of war.

Every person making a donation will have their name, unit and state published on our CONTRIBUTORS HONOR ROLL.   Add your name to those Brothers and Sisters, Supporters and Friends who gave to Honor these wonderful Americans.

Make your checks or money orders payable to:  KDVA DVL Memorial Fund     NO CASH, PLEASE!

Send to:  KDVA DVL Memorial Fund
               P.O. Box 631
               Middlesex, NJ 08846

THE AMERICAN VETERANS DISABLED FOR LIFE COMMEMORATIVE COIN ACT
SENATE BILL S. 633 SPONSORED BY SEN. TIM JOHNSON (SD)
HOUSE BILL H.R. 1951 SPONSORED BY REP. SUE KELLY (NY 19th) 

The Commemorative Coin Act will bring national attention to America's disabled veterans, and the revenues from the coin surcharge will cover a portion of the costs of the Memorial without costing tax payer monies.

There is work to do to continue to build the sponsor list for both bills.  Most legislators that have not yet sponsored say they just need to hear from their constituents.  PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS TODAY BY PHONE, SURFACE OR EMAIL. 

SENATE COSPONSORS (50)

HOUSE COSPONSORS (72)

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* Multiple Donations...