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Sep 12 2024

‘I Love My Fellow Veterans’

Las Vegas, Nevada, veteran Alan Deogracias is #StillServing his community. His companion, Sansa, a therapy dog, serves alongside him. Together, they visit the local VA hospital once a week as a therapy dog team. Deogracias also serves coffee each week at the VA Northwest Clinic. Outside of his VA volunteer work, Deogracias is the community service officer of VFW Post 12198. He helps foster community connection and reports on all service efforts for the Post. “I love my f...
Sep 10 2024

Always Remember

WASHINGTON — Where were you on 9/11? It’s a question so many of us have repeated over the past two decades. It’s a way we relate to one another as we reflect on the day of one of the most horrific attacks on the American people in U.S. history – Sept. 11, 2001. For the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), we join the rest of the country this Wednesday in remembering and honoring the lives of so many who were tragically taken from us during the terroristic events that took pla...
Sep 09 2024

VFW Action Alert: Take Action to Avoid Lapse in VA Benefits

Recently, VA announced a budget shortfall that may delay the timely delivery of benefits to people nationwide. Veterans, family members, and caregivers have earned VA benefits through service and we are frustrated to hear certain VA benefits may not be adequately funded through the end of the fiscal year. This is not a problem caused by Congress, however, our elected officials in Washington, D.C., have the responsibility to ensure benefits are paid on time to those who h...
Sep 09 2024

VFW Readies for Annual September Legislative Conference

WASHINGTON — Today, together with national leadership and staff, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Legislative Committee members from across the country arrive in the nation’s capital to share the VFW’s legislative priorities with their respective lawmakers. Based in Crystal City, Virginia, the conference will take place from Sept. 9 – 11, and the schedule includes a new member meeting on Monday evening followed by an all-hands legislative briefing on Tuesday morning before...
Sep 09 2024

Longer Exposure to Burn Pits Leads to Higher Risk of Respiratory Ailments

A study published in April found that prolonged deployments to bases with burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan put veterans at a higher risk for respiratory ailments. Published by JAMA Network Open in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study relied on declassified deployment data from the records of 459,381 veterans currently receiving treatment from the VA to determine the health effects of exposure to burn pits. Through the study, titled Deployment to Mi...

 

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