​According to the Veterans Administration Suicide Prevention Annual Report (Sept. 2019):

• 45,390 American adults died by suicide in 2017, compared with 31,610 in 2005.
• These deaths included 6,139 Veterans in 2017, compared with 5,787 in 2005.
• In 2017, Veterans accounted for 13.5% of all deaths by suicide among U.S. adults and constituted 7.9% of the U.S. adult population.
• In 2005, Veterans accounted for 18.3% of all deaths by suicide and represented 11.3% of the U.S. adult population.

VMM EXIBITS
& Collections

VETERans services page
Healthcare & Suicide
​prevention

Laurel  Leader-call
"at The museum"

"inside the vmm - episode 5
POWs in mississippi
​1943-1947

MEMORIAL DAY 2020
​VIDEO & MESSAGE

UPcoming Events
​♦ Golf TOurnament (Dixie gc)

SPecial message from the
president of the VMM

NATIONAL POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY
Recognized on the third Friday each September, the lone goal of this day is to bring attention to the the 80,000 U.S. military personnel still missing since​ the beginning of World War II.

​HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE U.S. AIR FORCE
18 SEPTEMBER 1947...U.S. Army Air Corps becomes the United States Air Force 

WE WILL NEVER FORGET

“This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor.
​This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would.”
PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN