While families around the country gathered together to honor Dad on Fathers Day 2010, men and women who lost their fathers during the Vietnam War, as well as those who lost their fathers in more recent conflicts, gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to lay roses at The Wall in honor of their fathers and all fathers who lost their lives in war. The archived webcast for viewing this event is now available here on USVets.TV.

The annual Fathers Day Rose Remembrance Ceremony began at 10 a.m.

on the East Knoll near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Volunteers and family members gathered at 8:30 a.m. to affix messages of tribute from around the country to the roses. This ceremony was co-hosted by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and Sons and Daughters in Touch (SDIT), the group that was founded in 1990 to locate, unite and support the children whose fathers made the ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam War. This is SDIT's 20th anniversary.

Speakers included:

-- Gen. George W. Casey Jr., Army Chief of Staff and SDIT member. Casey's father, Army Maj. Gen. William Casey Sr., was killed on July 7, 1970, when his command helicopter crashed in South Vietnam.

--SDIT Founder and Chairman Tony Cordero, whose father, Air Force Maj. William E. Cordero, was lost on June 22, 1965 after not returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam.

--Gold Star Daughter and Mother Elaine Roach, whose father, Navy Lt. Harold S. Roach was killed on Oct. 2, 1964, when his plane crashed in the South China Sea, and whose son, Army PFC Joel K. Brattain, was killed March 13, 2004, in Baghdad.

--Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

For more information about the ceremony, read the entire press release here: http://www.vvmf.org/557.cfm