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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Corporate & Community - Community Engagement Event category for its inaugural VFW Day of Service campaign in The 21st Annual American Business Awards® yesterday. The American Business Awards (ABA) is the nation’s premier...
Statement of Kristina Keenan, Deputy Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States For the Record United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs With Respect To Pending Legislation WASHINGTON, D.C. Chairman Tester, Ranking Member Moran, and members of the committee, on behalf of the men and wom...
Since 1941, the USO has stood ready to offer its support to the men and women in the military as well as their families. It requires coordination and hard work of thousands of volunteers worldwide. Serving the states of Washington and Oregon, USO Northwest is no exception. Annually, it serves more than 118,000 service members. It relies on the gene...
Dear Speaker McCarthy: On behalf of the 1.5 million members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary, a significant number of whom rely on U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care and benefits, we write to express our grave concerns with the proposed reports of returning to Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) funding levels for the federal...
Support for veterans seeking readjustment counseling and other psychological services is offered in a free, confidential setting at more than 300 Vet Centers. The centers are located throughout the country and are considered part of the VA health care system, but also are separate from VA organizational sites to ensure confidentiality. “Vet C...
A Colorado mountaintop where the Army’s 10th Mountain Division trained during World War II was classified as a national monument last October after a declaration by President Joe Biden. The more than 53,800-acre area will be maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service agency. According to a press release from the B...
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola was in Afghanistan less than two weeks when he died. The 20-year-old Californian was among the 13 Americans killed in a suicide bombing on Aug. 26, 2021, while trying to evacuate people from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. Assigned to 2nd Bn., 1st Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Marine Expeditionar...
During his second deployment to Iraq with the 1st Marine Regiment Personal Security Detachment in 2008, Seth Allard grew conscious of the alarming behavior around him. Allard had deployed earlier in 2005 with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment to Al Anbar province for operations Steel Curtain and Iron Hammer, but the behavioral patterns among his f...
Having completed his first marathonin 2015 at 78 years old, Bob Gravley had an idea. A Korean War veteran, Gravley crossed the finish line of the OBX Towne Bank Marathon that day in Outer Banks, North Carolina, with a notion of hosting a marathon back home in Salem, Missouri. Salem, in all its rural splendor, is exactly 26.7 miles south of Rolla, M...
Before Bancroft Capital CEO and founder Cauldon Quinn was nominated as one of the most influential veterans in business by the Philadelphia Business Journal in 2022, the Navy veteran’s life was spared by his conscience. The origins of Bancroft Capital date back to two decades before — Jan. 9, 2002 — when Quinn, then a member of Ta...
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