A 20-member Baseball Delegation sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) will visit from January 17-25, 2006. This "Bringing Baseball to " program is intended to build bridges between the and and to foster friendship.
Among the members of the delegation is famous baseball player Danny Graves, who was born in , 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 ’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.
K.P
Vietnamese
