He acts with the Theatre of War Project. He was interviewed extensively for the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War. He appeared with David Longhurst at the Watkins Museum of History for a panel about the war. Musgrave raised money for the Vietnam War Memorial at the University of Kansas and he served on the committee that helped see the Memorial be completed.Tim Carpenter, "2017 Distinguished Kansan: Marine Corps vet John Musgrave uses poetry as therapy," The Topeka Capital-Journal online, December 30, 2017, at http://www.cjonline.com/news/20171230/2017-distinguished-kansan-marine-corp-vet-john-musgrave-uses-poetry-as-therapy .Deborah C. Kidwell, ""Lest We Forget": Building the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the University of Kansas," Kansas History online, (Autumn 2007), Volume 30, pages 185, 189-90, at http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2007autumn_kidwell.pdf .
