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Without funding, income or loans, the bracelets were initially made from donated brass and copper, and engraved by a Santa Monica engraver. The group aimed bracelet sales at college students, since students were incredibly active in protesting the war with sit-ins, blackouts, riots, etc. Bracelets were a peaceful means of awareness. Copper bracelets did catch on with the adult population, who believed copper would help tennis elbow. Before long more than 12, requests were made for bracelets each day.

The two remaining students in the group dropped out of college to work full-time with VIVA. VIVA distributed five million bracelets, millions of bumper stickers, brochures, matchbooks, buttons, newspaper ads, etc.

By that time the Vietnam War had ended, and many supporters lost interest in the mission. The National League of Families is comprised of the wives, children, parents, siblings and relatives of military servicemen who were prisoners of war, missing in action, and killed in action bodies not recovered in Southeast Asia.

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No one realized it was going to get national attention. In the flag was installed in the Capitol Rotunda. It also has the distinction, historians and flag experts believe, of being the only non-national flag that any federal government anywhere in the world has mandated to be flown regularly.

In Washington, a law requires every state agency, every state institution of higher education, and every county, city and town to display the flag on the same six holidays. Florida requires the flag at state parks year round. Marc Leepson, arts editor and senior writer for The VVA Veteran , is the author of seven books, including Flag: An American Biography , a history of the American flag from its beginnings to the 21st century.