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VFW Life member Frank Lahtinen is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran currently living in Edgewater, Colorado, with his family. After retiring from service, Lahtinen started a website called Operation Veteran Strong, a free resource and service guide available to any veteran. Operation Veteran Strong is designed to support the mental and physical health of...
VFW Life member Roger Felix is a veteran #StillServing with VFW Post 9389 in Caribou, Maine, where he advises younger adults at the Loring Job Corps Center military preparatory program. He teaches them about veteran life and gets them involved in his Post’s service projects. Felix knows that bearing witness to veterans and their sacrifice can...
VFW Life member Clayton Yantis is a Pawnee, Illinois, veteran #StillServing as the Illinois state lead for The Fallen Outdoors, an all-volunteer nonprofit. During his time in the Army, Yantis completed his Master Resiliency Certification to provide low-level counseling and resiliency skills to veterans. Today he uses that training as a member of Th...
Clarence Dietz is a veteran #StillServing as a Gold Legacy Life member of VFW Post 3031 in Rogers, Arkansas. Dietz serves on the Post’s House Committee where he handles the general maintenance of their entire facility, from painting walls to fixing the refrigerator. He’s an active participant in many of the Post’s local community ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leading veterans service organizations, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), today released The Independent Budget Recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026. The report serves as a comprehensive roadmap to en...
Doug Olson is a veteran #StillServing in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Olson, a Life member at VFW Post 328, does whatever he can to give back to his community, including volunteering at local events and helping his VFW Post. Every week, Olson searches obituaries from the surrounding area to maintain a list of deceased veterans to be honored at the VFW&rsq...
VFW Life member and Post Quartermaster Jackie Robinson is #StillServing with VFW Post 4934 in McComb, Mississippi, her local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Jackson State University National Alumni Association. She also serves on the Mississippi Regional Housing Authority Board Region 7 and ...
When Evan Tyler Cruz became active with VFW in 2022, the first thing he inspired in his fellow Post 904 members in Loomis, California, was to find new ways to serve veterans. A skilled arborist with experience in managing sick and fallen trees, Cruz joined Post 904 Senior Vice Commander and Service Officer Shawn Simmons in establishing two work par...
VFW Life member Anthony Freire was born in Holtville, California, and lives in Wildomar, California. He joined the Navy in 1982 and served around the world, including on the island of Diego Garcia and Luzon Island in the Philippines; in Pyeongtaek, South Korea; at Fort Meade in Maryland; at the Naval Station Rota in Spain; at Naval Station Submarin...
Henry Hooper II sat at his home, nestled along a swath of colonial houses overlooking the Mississippi River on a cloudy November morning in Memphis, Tennessee. The river, like Hooper’s own life, passes through many destinations, touching many lives along the way, but ultimately running in one direction. For Hooper, that has always been the so...
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