Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Receives $10 Million Grant
Monday, February 27th, 2017 -- 8:02 AM
(AP) -The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund has received a $10 million grant for its proposed education center in Washington.The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the fund says the grant from the Lilly Endowment is the largest single cash donation in the fund's 37-year history. It has been trying to raise money to build the underground Education Center next to its memorial on the Mall since 2003.
The 25,000-square-foot center will display artifacts left at the memorial over the years as well as first-person accounts of veterans and citizens. There'll also be a two-story wall showing the faces of the 58,000 people whose names are etched on the memorial. With the Lilly donation, the fund says it now has $42.5 million of the $130 million it needs to raise.
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