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WASHINGTON — Last year was a banner year for America’s largest combat veterans’ organization. In 2012, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States helped 125,000 veterans to recoup more than $3.7 billion in earned compensation and pension from the Department of Veterans Affairs. This exceeds 2011’s record totals by 23,...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Foundation is pleased to announce it will award a $25,000 grant to the Michael G. Reagan Portrait Foundation on Feb. 8 at 12:30 p.m. VFW Department of Washington Commander Krist Huseby will officiate a formal check presentation from the VFW Foundation to Michael Reagan in an open-to-the-pu...
WASHINGTON — The following statement is by the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, John E. Hamilton, of St. Augustine, Fla., a Marine Corps rifleman in Vietnam and triple Purple Heart recipient: “The military services will be charged with phasing in this policy change to allow women greater access ...
WASHINGTON — Today, Chairman Jeff Miller (FL-01) and Ranking Member Mike Michaud (ME-02) of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R. 357) that would require schools eligible for GI Bill education benefits to give veterans in-state tuition rates even though they may not be residents of the states w...
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief Bill Thien and Student Veterans of America Executive Director Michael Dakduk signed a memorandum of understanding between the VFW and SVA last week during the fifth annual SVA national conference in Orlando, Fla. “This memorandum will provide opportunities for the VFW and S...
LINCOLN, Neb. — Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy today thanked the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) for a contribution totaling nearly $27,000 that helped provide four new vehicles for use at the state’s veterans homes. The vans were delivered today and transferred to drivers with the state’s veterans homes in Norfolk, Bellevue and Grand Islan...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The VFW Publications Department announced today that it is accepting submissions for VFW’s 2013 National Publications Contest. All publications will be categorized by the membership size of the Department, District or Post they represent. For the contest, Departments will be defined as: -large (21,500 or more membe...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) proudly announces its Operation Uplink™ “Free Call Day” program recently surpassed 7 million connections from deployed military personnel to their loved ones at home. The program hosts Free Call Days for service members serving in Afghanistan and Kuwait, as well as hospitalized veterans, giving t...
The following statement is by Robert E. Wallace, executive director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, regarding today’s nomination of Sen. Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense: “It is not the place for America’s oldest and largest combat veterans organization to advise or recommend to the President who he ...
The Burns family knows what it means to face challenges. Michael, the patriarch of the family, has gone through multiple deployments resulting in numerous injuries. The first incident involved his vehicle hitting an IED. The second occurred when he was flung out of the gunner’s turret. He sustained a third set of injuries during his second ...
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