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WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) recognizes all service members, veterans, comrades, and their families of Hispanic heritage in commemorating the National Hispanic Heritage Month Observance Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Woven into the fabric of our country’s fight for freedom, Hispanic Americans have served in large numbers in eve...
VFW Post 6753 life members Gerald Gaye and his wife, Helen, in Knoxville, Pennsylvania, started an annual benefit for shelter animals in 2014 that each October brings together a community of veterans and civilians for a noble cause. The Gayes host dozens of local animal lovers each year, relying on volunteerism from Post members and Auxiliary to he...
Last May, VFW Post 3619 in Deridder, Louisiana, joined others around the country for the first-ever VFW National Day of Service. But Post members were stepping up for their community long before that. For National Day of Service, the Post hosted a Youth Summer Safety Fair where kids received ID kits and personal first aid kits. Young attendees also...
The VFW’s "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" has afforded a former Army Ranger the opportunity to attend University of Minnesota full time. Jeremy VanLaningham began the three-year, full-time nurse anesthesia program at Minnesota University in 2020. The Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran said he is on track to finish the program on Aug. 31, ...
The ring of a bell at VFW Post 10087 in Beverly Hills, Florida, by an elderly veteran in May led to a grand-scale, 119-hour volunteer mission by six Post members to improve his living conditions. When the 74-year-old veteran sought help from the Post in finding a local handyman for minor domestic repairs around his trailer, its members assessed the...
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 ...
Background Reform to retirement pay and disability compensation policy is long overdue. Many of our nation’s combat-disabled veterans are prohibited by Congress from receiving their full earned Department of Defense retirement pay and Department of Veterans Affairs service-connected disability compensation. Over 50,000 Chapter 61 retirees wit...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is pleased to announce an additional $15,000 will be awarded to the top three Voice of Democracy national winners for the 2022-23 contest. The national first place prize has increased to $35,000, with second and third place national winners now taking home $21,000 and $15,000 respectfully....
WASHINGTON — Today, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) commemorates the 77th anniversary of the Empire of Japan’s formal surrender aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945, at 9:04 a.m., Tokyo time. Declared by American President Harry S. Truman as Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day, the ceremon...
Since 2013, members of VFW and the Student Veterans of America, or SVA, have had the opportunity to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill. This year, five student veterans were selected to be part of the VFW-SVA Fellowship program, which gave them a platform to advocate alongside VFW representatives on issues facing veterans. Fellows get to meet ...
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