Vietnam Veterans Reunion 2024

On Sunday, August 4, 2024, The Highground will host its annual Vietnam Veterans Reunion combining Vietnam exhibits and an opportunity to meet other Vietnam Veterans. There are typically 100 or more Vietnam Veterans who come together for the lunch.

WORKING ITINERARY:
Vietnam Experience Exhibit: 10am-2pm
Static display Huey: 10am-2pm
Huey landing TBA (possibly at 10am and dependent on the weather)
Lunch: 11am-1pm
Doug Bradley Book Presentation: 1pm (We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War: 1pm)***

Please check back for updates! More information about the reunion including presenters and exhibits will be available here, highlighted on our Facebook page (facebook.com/TheHighgroundVeteransMemorial) and provided to those who RSVP with an email address.

Lunch will be provided at no cost to Vietnam Veterans who RSVP prior to July 31.
Veterans can include one guest. To RSVP, contact Theresa museum@thehighground.org or call 715-743-4224.

The Highground is looking for sponsors for the Vietnam Veterans Reunion and lunch. Contact Theresa if you or your organization would like to be a sponsor. For more information, send Theresa an email at museum@thehighground.org or call 715-743-4224.

***Doug Bradley is an author, educator, and Vietnam veteran from Madison, Wisconsin. He has blogged for PBS’s Next Avenue and The Huffington Post, taught at UW-Madison, Baldwin-Wallace University, Edgewood College, and Arizona State University, and is the author of three books grounded in the Vietnam experience, including DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle, Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America, and co-author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, named the Best Music Book of 2015 by Rolling Stone magazine.   After graduation from college in 1969, Doug was drafted into the U. S. Army in March 1970. He served at the Army’s Hometown News Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and as a combat correspondent with U. S. Army Republic of Vietnam headquarters at Long Binh, South Vietnam, from November 1970-November 1971. He relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1974 where he helped establish Vets House, a storefront, community-based service center for Vietnam era veterans. He worked for more than three decades as a communications professional and senior lecturer for the University of Wisconsin.

Veterans are invited to help welcome home The Highground 40th Annual Bike Tour riders around 11am.

Founded as a Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1984, The Highground continues to honor and remember those who served in the Vietnam War and their families.
Learn more about the “We Were There: The Vietnam War” Exhibition Project.

The Highground is located at W7031 Ridge Road, Neillsville, WI 54456