Wayne Smith

Wayne Smith is a veterans advocate who has worked with war veterans for nearly four decades. After serving nearly 18 months in Vietnam as a combat medic, Smith overcame his own wartime trauma before becoming a nationally recognized mental health therapist and advocate for war veterans. He has continually worked on humanitarian issues and led educational programs about veterans and the causes and consequences of war. Smith helped raise more than $2 million for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and, in 1998, returned to Vietnam with twenty American veterans to promote peace and reconciliation.