SOURCE: The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund rnrnThe Honorable Theresa Anne Tull, a Foreign Service Officer with extensive experience in Southeast Asia, will be the keynote speaker for a special Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 26, at 12:30 p.m.rnrnThe special ceremony will mark the first time since 1987 that the Wall of Names honoring the 646 Philadelphians lost in the Vietnam War will be completely visible from Spruce Street. The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is completing the second phase of its $1 million Duty to Remember Campaign to refurbish and improve the site. This phase called for opening the Memorial to create greater awareness and deter vandalism, while the first phase completed in 2009 corrected damage from 20 years of wear and tear.rnrn Ambassador Tull was a foreign service officer in Saigon for the 1968 Tet Offensive and served in 1973 as the deputy principal officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Danang. She was the senior officer in that city and developed the evacuation plan when it fell to the Communists in 1975. She also was Charge d Affaires in Laos from 1983-86, where she negotiated for the return of the remains of lost servicemen. She also served as the Ambassador to Guyana from 1987-90 and was appointed to be the Ambassador of Brunei in 1993.rnrn The author of her life in the foreign service, "A Long Way from Runnemede," Ambassador Tull is a native of that New Jersey town and currently shares time between Washington, DC, and Sea Isle City. Retired in 1996, she also held a variety of high-level posts in the State Department, Philippines, Lincoln University and the National War College.rnrn Ambassador Tull will be introduced by Joe Griffies, host of the WIGB 1020 AM veterans program, Welcome Home.rnrn The Memorial Fund is $126,000 short of completing all aspects of the project, but the major work of creating the opening from Spruce Street will be done. In addition, a new plaza for the Republic of Vietnam Heritage and Freedom Flag Monument will also be near completion. For more information and to donate, visit www.pvvm.org.