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Too often, families of deployed troops or recently discharged veterans find themselves with unexpected expenses. Perhaps the family car quit running or the furnace stopped working on a frigid day. This is why VFW’s Unmet Needs is such a valuable program. It provides financial assistance up to $5,000 to active-duty troops or veterans for expen...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. extends its warmest season’s greetings to all of our nation’s veterans, service members and their families, as well as to all those who support them. Over the coming weeks, as we gather with friends and family to celebrate the holidays and ring in 2017 we must remember that it ...
The military-to-civilian transition presents many new challenges for veterans, including the job search. Some of you will seamlessly transition to careers in the government or with a defense contractor, making it feel as if your career change was easy. For most of you, your job search begins with matching your background, training, and experience w...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – December 15 marks the fifth anniversary of the end of the Iraq War, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. pauses to salute and honor our nation’s more than 1.5 million Iraq War veterans who answered our nation’s call. Born from the ashes of September 11, our nation’s newest greatest generation stood...
WASHINGTON - The 100 CITIES/100 MEMORIALS program is a $200,000 matching-grant for groups who undertake the restoration, preservation or conservation of local World War I memorials. After the war, thousands of World War I memorials were erected across the country to honor the local veterans who fought. Now, 100 years later, many of these have been ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –Sport Clips Haircuts made a record-breaking $1 million donation to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Foundation today to support its Help A Hero scholarships for U.S. service members and veterans. The funds were raised through Sport Clips’ clients and product partner donations, as well as its own Veterans Day contribu...
VFW Commander-in-Chief Brian Duffy received a tour of the newly opened VA medical center in New Orleans on a recent trip. Damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the previous New Orleans VA hospital had to be rebuilt. Now located on Canal Street, the $1 billion facility features round-the-clock visiting hours, and specialized care sections such as an...
WASHINGTON — In response to president-elect Trump’s intended nomination of Gen. James Mattis to U.S. Secretary of Defense, Brian Duffy, the national commander of the 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliaries, praised the decision to appoint a strategic thinker with a lengthy and respectable rec...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – This Dec. 7, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States encourages all Americans to pause and reflect on the sneak attack that altered the course of history and tested our nation’s resolve like never before. The Japanese attack 75 years ago resulted in more than 3,500 dea...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States today helped Wreathes Across America to reach its 2016 goal of placing Christmas and holiday wreathes at 245,000 veteran grave sites at Arlington by donating $15,000 to ensure the purchase of 1,000 wreathes. "Everyday is Veterans Day inside the VFW," said VFW National Commander Brian Duffy, "and to...
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