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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce its “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” program has surpassed awarding $5.7 million in scholarships to nearly 1,300 military and student veterans. The latest award of more than $768,000 will now help ensure 172 student veterans can continue their hi...
WASHINGTON — The federal government has been in a partial shutdown for nearing three weeks because Congress and the administration cannot reach an agreement over how much to spend on border protection. “Our government’s first responsibility is to secure the nation and protect her citizens,” said B.J. Lawrence, the national c...
WASHINGTON – Ten Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. members and Student Veterans of America leaders have been selected for the 2019 VFW-SVA Fellowship program. The announcement was made Saturday at SVA’s 11th National Conference in Orlando, Fla. The 10 fellows will now join more than 500 VFW members of when they converge on Capitol Hi...
WASHINGTON — The national commander of America’s largest and oldest major war veterans’ organization is calling an article published yesterday in the New York Times off-base and biased against pre-9/11 veterans’ service organizations. ‘‘The article, entitled ‘Veterans Groups Compete With Each Other, and Str...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is now accepting submissions for its 2019 National Publications Contest. VFW publications published up to four times annually, or five or more times annually, will be judged in four categories.* The categories are: Department-level publications: Newspaper/Newsletter ...
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