Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial

12/18/2019

07/18/2019

With First Thursday canceled tomorrow night due to extreme heat, the Del Ray Business Association wants to bring attention & ask that the community rally around this month's featured non-profit Friends of Rocky Versace. Del Ray is honored to have the Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Del Ray, located in front of the Mt. Vernon Recreation Center on Commonwealth Avenue. It has recently received some very needed repairs & renovations & while the Friends of Rocky raised most of the money needed, they are short $2,000. Please consider making a donation to the Friends of Rocky Versace.

The Friends of Rocky Versace raised money to erect the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veter

04/10/2019

I’m ready to support Friends of Rocky Versace on April 10, 2019 during Spring2ACTion. Learn more about Friends of Rocky Versace and all the other organizations participating in .

11/18/2018

11/15/2018

Community News Helicopter Pilot Downed in Cambodia Honored Today with Inscription on Alexandria Memorial By Zebra - November 15, 2018 0 29 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp Mrs. Jeanette Lilly unveils name of her son in the wall at Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial as her d...

11/14/2018

The city of Alexandria Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities Department, in conjunction with the veterans’ group “Friends of Rocky Versace,” will conduct a special “Gold Star/Name” unveiling ceremony on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 10 AM. Location is the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Mount Vernon Recreation Center, 2701 Commonwealth Ave., Alexandria, VA 22305. The name of a Vietnam War soldier reported Missing in Action (MIA) on March 17, 1971, 1st Lt Lawrence E. Lilly, will have his name chiseled into the stone bench beneath a Gold Star at the Versace Memorial. On hand to unveil 1st Lt Lilly’s name will be his Gold Star mother, Mrs. Jeanette Lilly, and his sister, Mrs. Susan Lilly Harvey, both of Alexandria, VA. Addition of 1st Lt Lilly’s name brings to 68 the number of Vietnam War Fallen Heroes from Alexandria whose names are on the memorial. Seven of the men, 1st Lt Lilly and 6 others, remain unaccounted for (MIA) in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. For more information, please contact the staff of the Mt. Vernon Recreation Center at (703) 746-5556.

05/28/2018

The Friends of Rocky Versace raised money to erect the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in 2002 in honor of the 67 Alexandrians killed in Vietnam.

05/28/2018

Alexandria Remembers (Photos © Wayne Hulehan)

Memorial Day Ceremony (Photos: Wayne Hulehan)