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Background The Honoring our PACT Act is a comprehensive solution to provide access to VA health care and benefits to toxic-exposed veterans. This historic legislation would help millions of veterans by establishing a permanent presumptive framework to address any toxic exposure, foreign or domestic, past, present, and future. It would provide VA he...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is excited to announce it is teaming up with TopCoat® Products to bring its top-of-the-line detailing products to VFW members by offering a special members-only 20% discount on a uniquely crafted VFW Starter Kit. The VFW Starter Kit will include: (1) 16oz F11 w/ nozzle, (1) 16oz Polywa...
Edwin D. Robinson Sr. served four years in the Navy before a 30-year career in the Army, where he rose to the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 2. After more than 10 years with the Department of Logistics, he retired. But the Bronze Star recipient had no plans of slowing down. “I wanted to return to my high school in Columbus, Ohio, to mentor you...
After tornadoes tore through Mayfield, Kentucky, in December of 2021, VFW South Carolina State Commander Dwight Hora contacted the Kentucky VFW. He was told Mayfield had been ‘decimated,’ and asked how his state could help. Hora learned that VFW Post 6291 near Mayfield was already hard at work. Led by Commander Ryan Buchanan, the Post v...
On the final night of then-VFW Commander-in-Chief Hal Roesch II’s homecoming tour last year, Virginia VFW Riders surprised him with the largest sum they ever raised through VFW’s Vander Clute Memorial Motorcycle Ride. In front of hundreds of VFW and Auxiliary members from across the country, friends and family, Virginia VFW Riders Chair...
In the days leading up to the 1st Marine Division’s Iraq invasion in March 2003, seven Marines with the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company were inserted into Iraq by helicopter. Carrying 145-pound packs apiece, those Marines served as the eyes and ears for the commanding generals preparing to enter the country. Among those recon Marines was Sgt...
In the quiet rural town of Fredericksburg, in the Hill Country of central Texas, a respected and trusted African-American family in the community had three sons who all enlisted to serve in World War II. Lee Roy Phillips served as a Navy Seabee and John Phillips served in the Air Force. Another son, Paul Phillips Jr., served with the Army’s 2...
Members of VFW Post 10380 in Green Township, Ohio, were at their recruiting best at the 161st Harvest Home Fair in September. Held in Cheviot, Ohio, a suburb near Cincinnati, the fair kicked off with a parade through the city’s downtown. Life member Bill Ostermeyer pulled his Iwo Jima-themed float while the Post’s 2½-ton truck wa...
For the past few years, a task force at a Missouri university has made it its goal to give many Doughboys of World War I the proper recognition for their acts of valor. A team from Park University’s George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War — located in Parkville, Missouri, near Kansas City, Missouri, — is working on th...
For well over a century, the VFW’s National Veterans Service (NVS) office on Capitol Hill has been devoted to serving veterans. With 1,900 VA-accredited service officers, including 27 service officers at Pre-Discharge offices on military installations, NVS recovered more than $10.2 billion in earned VA benefits on behalf of more than 550,000 ...
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