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After a failed Olympic bid, wrestler Sally Roberts set her sights on the Army. If she hadn’t, she never would have volunteered for deployment to Afghanistan or met the women who inspired her nonprofit, Wrestle Like A Girl. “I was incredibly depressed from not making the Olympic team,” said Roberts, who joined the Army in 2009 afte...
On March 3, a tornado ravaged Nashville, Tenn., which caused extensive damage and at least 24 deaths. Only hours after the devastation, members of VFW Post 1970 in West Nashville got to work. Commander of Post 1970 John Lambert, a Navy veteran who served from 2002 to 2006, said that members of the Post decided to open their building as a donation d...
President of VFW Auxiliary 8545 Cheryl Brown had always wanted to find a way to thank her brother, Lynn Thomas Brown, for his service in Vietnam. So when she got a 10-week-old German Shepherd puppy last year, she knew what she had to do. Thanks to the generosity of her neighbors in the countryside of Smithfield, Va., Brown was able to purchase th...
Vietnam War veteran Howard Jenkins spent six months renovating a pontoon boat — adding a bunk bed, shower and sink — in preparation for the second leg of an expedition down the Mississippi River. His goal: to raise awareness of veteran treatment courts. “I could go out on the street and ask100 people, and 99 people wouldn’tk...
Randy Engness took eight days of vacation at the end of September to help a family he had never met. As commander of VFW Post 2204 in Rice Lake, Wis., Engness learned at the Wojcik family in Strum, Wis., about an hour away. They were going to be featured on the Lifetime Network’s Military Makeover with Montel. During a typical season, the tel...
U.S. Army Sgt. Jared Zabaldo was serving as a military journalist in 2004 in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Propelled by patriotism, he had enlisted a few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Three years later, he found himself in the middle of another terrorist attack, one of the worst enemy mortar assaults to hit the Green Zone that yea...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to launch #StillServing, a campaign to bring attention to and honor the continued commitment and sacrifice of America’s veterans. The men and women who bravely defend our nation often continue to selflessly serve their communities and country in ways beyond their military se...
Students in the Garfield, N.J., school district were in for a treat at Christmastime thanks to VFW Post 2867 in Garfield. Pre-k, kindergarten and first-grade students had the opportunity to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Post home. Each child walked away with a gift and a tummy full of snacks. Post Commander Irwin Wasserman said this was the Post...
Re-introducing a Vietnam War veteran to martial arts set the course of one future veteran’slife and spurred his desire to help others. Clay Worley, who discovered the ancient art form in his youth, served in the Army from 1997-98 with the 1st Infantry Division and 1st Armored Division in Bosnia and from 2003-04 with the 82nd Airborne Division...
Four Purple Heart recipients participated in the 37th annual VFW magazine-Donnan Gulch Outfitters Disabled Veterans Antelope Hunt this past October near Broadus, Mont. Doonan Gulch Outfitters is owned and operated by Russ and Carol Greenwood. The couple started hosting the annual hunt in 1982 because they didn’t like the way Vietnam War veter...
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