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DIRECTORS & OFFICERS
VALOR REMEMBERED FOUNDATION
 
Brendon Lyons, Jr., US Army Special
Forces, retired
Chairman and Treasurer
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SOG
Recon Team. Center picture above.
Brendon Lyons with the nine Montagnard members of his twelve man
reconnaissance team.MACVSOG -
Historical and Technical Advisor.
Right picture above.
Brendon Lyons provided historical and technical advice to Sculptors Mark
and Jenelle Byrd in the recreation of scenes from the Benavidez Medal of
Honor incident. He recruited volunteers to pose in the scenes and
provided weapons and equipment to use as models for the sculptures.
Their work together led eventually to the creation of Valor Remembered
Foundation. From the left, Brendon Lyons, Eugene Pugh, and a
Montagnard volunteer posing as an NVA soldier.
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Alamo Silver Wings Airborne Association
Military Ball. Lyons assisted Jenelle Byrd with introduction of
the Benavidez Memorial project to the Alamo Silver Wings Airborne
Association. An early clay model for the bust of Roy Benavidez is seen
at the left. MABS photo.
Signing the Articles of
Incorporation.
Center picture above.
Brendon Lyons, right, signs the articles establishing the foundation on
May 2, 2001, on the anniversary of the Roy Benavidez earned his Medal
of Honor. MABS Photo.
Montagnard Thanksgiving Party.
Right picture above.
During the Vietnam War Brendon Lyons served on recon
trams made up of American Special Forces members and Montagnards - Mountain
tribesmen who were ethnically and culturally different from the Vietnamese.
With the fall of South Vietnam the Montagnards have been much persecuted by
the communist government of Vietnam and many have moved to the United
States. Lyons has been an active leader in national efforts to help
the Montagnards and their families to survive and prosper. Many of the
Montagnard families have settled in the Dallas/Ft Worth area now look to
Brendon Lyons and the Special Forces Association chapter for assistance in
adjusting to life in America. Each year the chapter hosts Thanksgiving
and Christmas parties for the Montagnard families, usually in Lyons's home. |
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