Support Us

Volunteers are needed to help form a new group that would be dedicated to help maintain the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Highland Park. Our Rochester Memorial is one of the finest memorials in this Country. The Monroe County Parks Department does an outstanding job maintaining lighting, trees, shrubs and ground care. The Spring “Day of Caring” volunteers gets it looking pristine for the Lilac Festival and the thousands of visitors who attend that event. The Greater Rochester Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Board of Directors, would like to embrace volunteers who would donate a few hours of their time, to keep it this way until our Fall, Veterans Day ceremony. The volunteers will determine when they would like to perform this monthly “facelift”. Volunteers can work as a group or make individual commitments in their free time.

If interested, please contact Chuck or Joan Macaluso at (585) 225-8288 or email chuckmac66@yahoo.com.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 agency incorporated in New York in 1987 whose sole mission was to build a living, educational Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial’s purpose is to commemorate, to educate, and to heal.

Please send donations to following:

Chuck Macaluso
154 Mendota Drive
Rochester, New York 14626

The memorial commemorates the service, valor, and sacrifice of Vietnam Veterans and Vietnam Era Veterans as well as all members of the Greater Rochester community who were touched by the effects of the war. The memorial also provides all Americans the opportunity for learning, remembering, and peaceful reflection. It aims to educate future generations about the war and effects leading up to it. It also serves as an oasis where people from the Greater Rochester area come to reflect about acts of valor by fellow soldiers, a loved one who suffered or died as a result of the war, and to publicly welcome home those who served.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester, which has found its home in Highland Park South, has been a place of great pride since its dedication on September 8, 1996. Through the years, the memorial has matured and developed into a unique place of tranquility and honor. The numbers of lives that have been touched by this memorial go far beyond those who were intended in the original mission. This memorial is truly a living memorial which grows more with every experience and emotion left behind by all who have visited the site.

Thank You

Chuck Macaluso
President VVMGR