Our job to be there: Vietnam? By Vivian Blevins - Contributing columnist When Penny Adams of Piqua, Ohio, a Vietnam War U.S. Navy veteran, entered the Nauticus at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2019 to serve as a member of a panel entitled “To Bind Their Wounds,” she was first greeted by signs: 10,000-Day War at Sea followed by Why Did the U.S. Go to War in Vietnam? She walked further to see her words and her name inscribed on a wall in answer to the question: “We were saving lives. It was our job to be there.”