LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech University has secured a federal grant of nearly $950,000 from the U.S. Department of War to support researchers in leading the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative.
The Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative (VWAI) is a humanitarian project that helps locate and identify the remains of more than 200,000 Vietnamese people still missing from the Vietnam War while returning their personal letters and diaries to families. The goal is to help families learn the fate of loved ones who never returned home, offering dignity, answers and closure through recovered remains or personal correspondence.
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The grant helps ensure that Texas Tech researchers with the Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive (VCNA) and the Institute for Peace & Conflict will lead to an important project for thousands of Vietnamese families.
Steve Maxner, the director of VNCA, said that the project’s foundation lies in an archival resource known as the Combined Document Exploitation Center collection…