© VVA1011 2011 Made with Xara What We Are About  Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families. V V A is organized as a not-for-profit corporation and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.   V V A's FOUNDING PRINCIPLE "Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another." .