Jarvis attended bootcamp and Radioman “A” School and was sent to her first duty station in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. “My mom was excited, I was so scared to do it, and Dad said, ‘Please don’t go Army,’ so I went Navy.”

“I was kind of like, ‘I don’t like living in this town anymore’ - that’s when I went to my parents and said I wanted to join the military,” she said. She joined the Navy right after high school. Jarvis comes from a military family - her father served for 30 years during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and her husband served for 32 years. “I don’t think I really realized it until recently,” she said about the special day.Īccording to The American Legion’s website, National Vietnam War Veterans Day is a time to pay special tribute to the 9 million Americans who served during the Vietnam War era, to the 58,000 names memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and to those who never received the recognition they deserved when they returned to America from war. Having a day set aside each year, National Vietnam War Veterans Day, to honor her and fellow veterans means a lot to Jarvis.

NATIONAL VETERANS CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVALĪmerican Legion Auxiliary and American Legion member Pat Jarvis is a proud Vietnam era U.S.

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