Isaac Peugh, with Program Executive Office Soldier, demonstrates the Integrated Visual Augmentation System to Finley, 9, during the "Bring Your Child to Work Day" event at the Pentagon, April 24, 2025.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Edward J. Chrystal, who leads the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, spoke March 29, 2025, during the National Vietnam War Veterans Day commemoration at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins spoke March 29, 2025, during the National Vietnam War Veterans Day commemoration at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins; retired Army Maj. Gen. Edward J. Chrystal, who leads the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, and Fern Sumpter Winbush, the principal deputy director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, laid a wreath together at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial March 29, 2025, during the National Vietnam War Veterans Day commemoration in Washington, D.C.

Retired Army officer Thomas Barrett and Wayne Reynolds, who serves as national treasurer of the Vietnam Veterans of America, talk during the National Vietnam War Veterans Day commemoration event, March 29, 2025, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Reynolds is a Vietnam War veteran. Barrett is a Gold Star son whose father died during the Vietnam War. The two men first met years ago in Columbus, Ga., where Reynolds was a high school teacher and Barrett was a student.