TOP (Tours Of Peace) Vietnam Veterans is an independent nonprofit 501(c)3 organization founded in 1998, to help Vietnam veterans and families heal and find closure through Tours Of Peace. The Foundation is comprised of five programs: Veterans, Family, Humanitarian, Personal Effects, and Education. Tours Of Peace trips include an emotional component, while participants revisit old military sites of personal meaning, and conduct humanitarian projects nearby--working to meet the needs of orphans, villagers, and the elderly. In Vietnam, TOP and participants retrieve personal effects, left behind during the war. Upon return, we research and attempt toreturn these effects to families and veterans. TOP educates the public about Vietnam veteran & family issues, the Vietnam War, and Vietnam as it is today.  TOP Vietnam Veterans stands for healing and closure. Ourapproach to veteran & family recovery integrates emotionaland humanitarian components, based on the principal, “byhelping others we help ourselves.”