A VVMF Baseball Delegation

A VVMF Baseball Delegation to tour Vietnam in January to build bridges between the U.S. and Vietnam
A 20-member Baseball Delegation sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) will visit Vietnam from January 17-25, 2006. This "Bringing Baseball to Vietnam" program is intended to build bridges between the United States and Vietnam and to foster friendship.
Among the members of the delegation is famous baseball player Danny Graves, who was born in Vietnam, the son of an American soldier and Vietnamese woman.
The Delegation’s activities will begin on Tuesday, January 18, in Hanoi with a briefing by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command-Detachment 2 and a meeting with officials of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations. In the afternoon that day, the delegation will have a baseball demonstration at the National University for Sports and Physical Culture in Tu Son, Bac Ninh province.
From January 19-21, the Delegation will tour Hue and Quang Tri. In Quang Tri, they will be briefed about VVMF’s mine action program in the province and visit Project RENEW™, which is a cooperative effort between VVMF and the Quang Tri Province People’s Committee, designed for Restoring the Environment and Neutralizing the Effects of War. On January 20, they will attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Le Loi High School in Dong Ha town to dedicate Vietnam’s first-ever baseball field. Following the field dedication, Danny Graves will lead students in an instructional clinic. On January 21, they will visit VVMF’s Community Library in Quang Tri’s Dak Rong district.
From January 22-24, the Delegation will tour Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta. They will conclude their activities and depart from Ho Chi Minh City on January 25.

(from vvmf.org)