Originally published in the Winter/Spring 2025 edition of the Virginia Defender, issue 76, printed March 26. Reproduced here for accessibility and archival purposes. To find other stories in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue or to download the full PDF, see this post. For other issues dating back to 2012, see the Full Issues page.

On display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture from Nov. 23, 2024, to July 6, 2025: “This exhibit examines, through personal objects and oral histories, what Virginia’s soldiers, policy makers, families, activists, and Vietnamese migrants carried both physically and emotionally during the war and its aftermath.”

Among those interviewed for the exhibit is Phil Wilayto, editor of The Virginia Defender, who spent the Vietnam War years as a civilian organizer with the GI Movement in Newport, R.I., and Norfolk.

Virginia Museum of History & Culture

428 N Arthur Ashe Boulevard Richmond, VA 23220

Virginia & the Vietnam War Exhibit