- Jan Scruggs is known for To Heal a Nation (1988), Home from the War: The Voices of Vietnam (2009) and War Stories (2007).
- He was a counselor with the U.S. Department of Labor; he thought of the idea of building a National Memorial for Vietnam Veterans after seeing a screening of The Deer Hunter (1978) in spring 1979, and he established and operated the memorial fund which paid for it.
- Founder of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Fund (VVMF)
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