WASHINGTON (7News) — Prince George’s County native and Army veteran Jan Scruggs grew up in Bowie, Maryland. At the age of 18, he joined the Army and almost immediately went to fight in Vietnam. He ...

On Nov. 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It has since become the most-visited memorial on the National Mall as millions of service members ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Fifty-three years ago, Jimmy Mosconis saved Jan Scruggs’ life in Vietnam. “My right arm stopped working. I was filled with shrapnel, and I needed somebody to rescue me,” Scruggs ...

As National Park Service officials consider how to change a truncated quote on the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, another group continues to slowly chip away at another set of mistakes on a monument ...

Hello again. I'm Alex Chadwick, and this is DAY TO DAY on Memorial Day, picking up with something we began Friday: an interview from years ago with a man who's now a friend, Jan Scruggs. He is the ...

National Mall officials have approved plans to build a two-story underground center that will serve as a “mecca” for soldiers returning from Afghanistan. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund hopes to ...

When Jan Scruggs, armed with his graduate school research into the psychosocial effect of the Vietnam War on military veterans, started his campaign to build a national monument to them, he envisioned ...

Twenty-five years ago today a simple, sober, monument was riveted into American public life — the Vietnam War Memorial, the distinctive black wall in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to which the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jan C. Scruggs was a Founder and President for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund with 39 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1982 Ceremony. The year ...

Robert talks with Jan Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, about a proposal to build an underground visitors' center and educational center. Scruggs has been leading ...