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While many college students were focusing on final projects, essays and tests during the spring 2019 semester, student veterans at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Va., made time to serve their community in April. For the group’s final community service project of the school year, Mason Veteran Patriots — the Student Veterans o...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is mourning the loss of Past Commander-in-Chief John A. Biedrzycki, who passed away yesterday, August 29, 2019. John A. Biedrzycki was elected national commander of the VFW on July 22, 2015, at the organization’s 116th national convention, held in Pittsburgh, Pa. John served in...
WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars is very concerned that the dependent children of U.S. service members and government employees stationed overseas, and who are also legal permanent residents of the U.S., may face difficulty returning to the United States. The concern arose from an update published Wednesday by the U.S. Citizenship an...
For 120 years, the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been known for its service to veterans. For the past 100 of those years, the oldest overseas war veterans organization has had an office in Washington, D.C., devoted to just that — service. Under Commander-in-Chief F. Warner Karling at VFW’s 1919 encampment (forerunner to today’s Nat...
Ohio native, Joshua Parker, has spent his entire career in the Air National Guard. Now 28-years-old, he is stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico and working as a firefighter. He gives a lot of himself, both in service to others and in his master’s program. Parker is attending the University of Puerto Rico concentrating on an all-Spanish social w...
At 21-years-old, veteran Lexy Llewellyn has plenty of years to achieve her dreams. But this Maryland resident isn’t wasting any time to begin her career in criminology. With the help of the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” the road to graduation is a bit easier. Before setting sights on school, Lexy felt a strong ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Together with longtime supporter Sport Clips Haircuts, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce its “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” program has surpassed awarding $6.4 million in scholarships to more than 1,450 military and student veterans. The latest fall semester award of nearly $76...
Veteran Adam Lawrence sees a bridge between his devotion to the military and his love of mathematics and computer science. This Valencia, Calif., native joined the Army directly out of high school without giving it a second thought. He had watched both his father and grandfather devote their lives to the military so it felt natural to him, even tho...
Veteran Tyler Walsh, 30, of Middlebury, Conn., believes higher education is incredibly important for veterans. “The military teaches us lessons that cannot always be cleanly transferred into the civilian world. Higher education allows us to truly integrate all of the life lessons we learned in the military to our civilian careers,” he s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce it is working to restore the sounds of life for VFW members and their families with significant savings on hearing care through its new relationship with Amplifon Hearing Health Care. This newest member benefit is one of several the VFW has recently rolled out, t...
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