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Joint Statement of The Co-Authors of The Independent Budget: Veterans of Foreign Wars Disabled American Veterans Paralyzed Veterans Of America Before The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs On A Review of the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget and 2024 Advance Appropriations Requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs Chairman Tester, Ra...
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins in with our grateful nation in celebrating the birthday of the United States Army and the flag it has carried while fighting for freedom since the American Revolutionary War. On June 14, 1775, the following entry was written into the journal of the Second Continental Congress: “Resol...
Years ago, Air Force veteran Nicole* signed up to receive the VFW monthly e-newsletters. She hoped to learn about resources to share with other veterans. “I didn’t think that I would come to need the resources myself,” she said. But when the pandemic hit, Nicole applied for the VFW’s Unmet Needs program she had learned about...
WASHINGTON — Today, The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) pauses to remember the more than 156,000 brave Allied troops who landed by air and by sea targeting the 50-mile stretch of Normandy’s beaches in an effort to liberate German-occupied France and bring an end to the Nazi regime. June 6, 1944, forever changed the course of history. Wit...
Chosen as a VFW Buddy Poppy girl at the tender age of 4 in 1932, Betty Joan (Christian) Adamson can still recall the long train rides to Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, California. Adamson, who celebrated her 94th birthday in late February, even saved the small, pink dress she wore the day she met President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charl...
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) stands with our fellow Americans in recognizing and honoring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) veterans, service members and military families for Pride Month. Since 1884, every person who has ever raised their right hand to swear or affirm an oath to support the Constituti...
WASHINGTON — With the America’s most sacred of holidays just days away, I ask this question of my fellow Americans, ‘What is the price of freedom worth to you?’ It may be easy for most to head into this weekend with plans for family get-togethers, picnics, barbeques, and trips to the beach, lake, mountains, or wherever rest ...
It was a glimpse at the human condition from the fifth floor of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2010 that gave John Peck hope. The Marine and quadruple amputee, one of five veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive such level of trauma, watched as a fellow amputee waited for a bus down belo...
When Afghanistan War veteran Tony Mayne retired from the Army after more than 20 years, he vowed to continue serving fellow Rangers by sharing his invaluable knowledge. Understanding the complexities of a journey from service member to civilian, Mayne resolved to help the Rangers population through a “Ranger For Life” concept he began d...
1st Lt. Ashley White was serving as a member of a Cultural Support Team attached to a Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan when she was killed on Oct. 22, 2011. On Jan. 10, the Villagers for Veterans and Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter in Eustis, Florida, broke ground for Ashley’s House, a transition home for female veterans...
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