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Click here to watch the local news story. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Troops in the 1434th Engineering Unit training for overseas deployment at Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin, received a three-day leave that started yesterday. The group of about 160 soldiers from northern Michigan were allowed to visit their family with a few days off before their deployment t...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was on this day back in 1942 when America’s Pledge of Allegiance was officially recognized by Congress as the national pledge. The original draft of the pledge is said to have been written in 1892 by James B. Upham, a magazine publisher in Boston. The first version was: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the r...
WASHINGTON— The following VFW statement concerns an article in Sunday's edition of the New York Times about the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia: What occurred in the Philadelphia VA Medical Center is inexcusable, and the VFW has already been told that those involved have been held accountable. Veterans have earned the right t...
WASHINGTON — At a Wednesday Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on New Orleans levees, Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) insisted that Army Corps of Engineer Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh address her as "Senator" instead of "Ma'am." A 17-second videoclip of the exchange has now become the latest Internet fodder to emanate from ...
Statement of Robert Jackson, assistant director, National Legislative Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability and Memorial Affairs United States House of Representatives with respect to Addressing the VA Claims Backlog.
While flipping through the pages of the VFW calendar in 2006, Hughes, a member of VFW Post 3650, Riverdale, Ga., noticed something peculiar. The calendar, which denotes official days to fly the flag, had Mother’s Day marked … but not Father’s Day. Convinced the absence of Father’s Day was but a misprint, Hughes called VFW ...
A con artist has been preying on the generosity of sympathetic veterans and has managed to bilk numerous VFW Posts around the country out of as much as $400 each by posing as either a veteran who has “filled out an application” to join a specific Post or as a current VFW member. The scammer has used a couple of different approaches whe...
A fish fry with a group of men over 60. Not the type of get-together a 20-something guy is likely to view as an appealing way to spend the evening. But the Veterans of Foreign Wars wants to attract exactly those young men as new members. The VFW believes switching from old-fashioned socials to social networking Web sites is the answer. The 110-yea...
Statement of Dennis M. Cullinan, director, National Legislative Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health United States House of Representatives with respect to Assessing Cares and the Future of VA’s Health Infrastructure.
Earlier today, VFW received the updates and photos below from the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A). The CSTC-A, in conjunction with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA), the International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan (ISAF) and the International Community, and nested with the US For...
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