The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) is proud to commemorate National Vietnam War Veterans Day with its annual “Welcome Home” Ceremony, live from our Great Hall on Saturday, March 28, at 10 a.m. Our annual ceremony opens with a moving and memorable procession of all Vietnam War Veterans in attendance, who are welcomed home to thunderous applause from the greater community for their service in a powerful display of gratitude.

Our keynote speaker will be renowned author and Columbus native Wil Haygood, who will share reflections from his new book, The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and At Home. A book signing will follow the program. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

If you cannot join us in person for this powerful ceremony, please watch the event live here.

About Wil Haygood

Wil Haygood is an American journalist and author who has written ten nonfiction books. His chronicle of White House butler Eugene Allen was adapted into the film, THE BUTLER, which starred Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker and was directed by Lee Daniels. Haygood – who traveled into several war zones as a journalist – is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, as well as a professor at Miami University (Ohio). Among his many honors are the Scribes Book Award, the Deems-Taylor Book Award, the Ella Baker Award – named after the Mississippi civil rights activist – and the Freedom Summer of 1964 Award.