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When Army veteran Alyssa Parker began searching online for scholarships available to veterans, she quickly found the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship.” “I found it right away in a scholarship search,” said Parker, who served for four years and 10 months and deployed to Kuwait and Jordan in 2015 with the 463rd Medical Det...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Marking its 13th consecutive year of support, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce it is the presenting sponsor of the 34th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at the United States Army’s White Sands Missile Range. On April 9, 1942, approximately 75,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers surrendered after mo...
A VFW Post in the Garden State will host its third free food truck event on April 13. The Post’s commander said that the event aims to represent the diversity of the community. VFW Post Commander Maria Hamlin said that over the past couple of years, members of VFW Post 493 in Nutley, New Jersey, have increased community and veteran outreach. ...
Last month, VFW Post 8904 in Center, Texas, commemorated the 266 Americans who died when the USS Maine exploded in the Havana, Cuba, harbor on Feb. 15, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. According to Post 8904 Quartermaster Larry Hume, the USS Maine remembrance ceremony is just one of more than 25 events the Post schedules throughout the year t...
Every Friday, VFW Post 6461 members in Fountain, Colorado, host a dinner on behalf of a cause or simply to come together in camaraderie. On Feb. 10, however, the dinner was a rallying call for an Air Force veteran and Fountain Police officer on life support. Post 6461 was filled to the brim with hundreds of people supporting Julian Becerra, 35, who...
Members of a Sunflower State VFW Post on Jan. 23 gave their respects to a World War II veteran on his 100th birthday. VFW Post 11499 in Basehor, Kansas, held a birthday celebration for Wilbur Grisham’s century of living. Grisham, a retired Army tech sergeant, is a longtime Life member of the VFW Post and still attend Post meetings, said VFW P...
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) presented its 2023 Congressional Award to Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) for his outstanding service and years of unwavering support to veterans, service members, their families and survivors. “What an honor it is to present this award to such an honorable man,” said VFW Commander-in-Chief...
WASHINGTON — In a standing-room-only packed chamber in the Cannon House Office Building, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Commander Tim Borland delivered his message of “Every Veteran Counts” during in-person testimony before the 118th Congress during a special joint hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans&rs...
Statement of Timothy M. Borland Commander-in-Chief Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before the Joint Hearing Committees on Veterans’ Affairs United States Senate and United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Chairmen Tester and Bost, Ranking Members Moran and Takano, members of the Senate and House Committees o...
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has selected its new National Service Officer. Mike Figlioli, deputy director of VFW National Veterans Service (NVS), has been promoted to director of the VFW’s premiere program for veterans. The 104-year-old NVS offers free service claims assistance to veterans, service members and their ...
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