Celebrities scheduled to attend

SSG Zeke Anderson (Actor Terence Knox)
Actor Terence Knox played SSG Clayton “Zeke” Anderson in the TV series Tour of Duty. The show ran on CBS for three seasons, from September 1987 to April 1990. It followed an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War, and was the first TV series to regularly show Americans in combat in Vietnam.

Not simply an action program, Tour of Duty addressed the issues of racism, suicide, fragging, terrorism, civilian deaths, drug abuse, and the readjustment problems of Vietnam veterans after they came home.

The series focused mainly on Bravo company's second platoon under the command of 2nd Lieutenant Myron Goldman (played by Stephen Caffrey), and Sergeant Zeke Anderson played by Knox.

Terry Knox will receive VVA’s President’s Award for Excellence in the Arts at the Saturday night Awards Banquet, and will take part in the Saturday afternoon autographing session and book signing.

Playboy Playmate of the Year 1965
Jo Collins
"G.I. Jo"
Jo Collins was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the month in December 1964 and Playmate of the Year for 1965. She was nicknamed “G.I. Jo” in honor of her many USO tours to Vietnam to entertain the troops.

She first went to Vietnam in 1966 to deliver a copy of Playboy in person to Army Lt. Jack Price of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, who had availed himself of an offer from Playboy that anyone getting a lifetime subscription to the magazine would receive the first copy from a Playboy Playmate in person.

Jo Collins will receive the VVA’s President’s Award for Excellence in the Arts at the Saturday night Awards Banquet, and take part in the Saturday afternoon autographing session and book signing.
1st Lt. Jack Price, commander of the 503rd Infantry Regiment's "Bravo Bulls," gets his unit's lifetime subscription to Playboy magazine from playmate Jo Collins, right, and her Far East tour chaperone, Joyce Challecki, at the Army hospital at Bien Hoa.