2019 UAV National Convention Banquet [I]

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The 72nd National Ukrainian American Veteran’s Annual Convention was held from October 31 through November 2, 2019 at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Ukrainian American Veterans, Inc. (UAV) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to unite American veterans of Ukrainian descent. Organized in 1948, the UAV is an American patriotic organization composed of honorably discharged veterans of the United States Armed Forces who are of Ukrainian heritage or descent. This background identifies the UAV as serving a dual function in the public community. It is both an American veteran organization, and it is an ethnic Ukrainian organization at the same time. The Executive Board of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the nation’s largest representation of Ukrainians in America, announced on December 10, 2016, that the Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) now stand beside nearly 30 other national Ukrainian American organizations as official members of UCCA's National Council. The announcement by the UAV marks a welcome return to the leadership of the UCCA by veterans of the United States Armed Forces of Ukrainian descent. Founded in 1948 by American veterans of World War I and World War II who shared a Ukrainian heritage, the UAV focuses its activities on providing financial assistance to veterans and their families, scholarships for college students who are descendants or relatives of Ukrainian American Veterans, and sharing the story of Ukrainian American veterans through an active registration project as well as the Library of Congress’ Veterans’ History project. https://www.uavets.org/