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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The members of Ban Chang VFW Post 12146, located in Thailand, are no strangers to giving back to their community. For years, they’ve supported various local charities including the Boon Chu Home for Disabled Children, an orphanage and daycare center in Bangkok, Thailand, that provides care for severely disabled children. Of...
“They have no food, no money, no nothing…” That’s how VFW Post 8692 Senior Vice Commander John Pemrick Lewis describes the veterans he sees on the streets of Albany, N.Y. When he first encountered these homeless veterans, he knew something needed to be done—and fast. He formed a unique partnership with multiple VFW P...
Army veteran Nicholas Edward Fertakis served as a combat engineer for six years. Before he left, he was on a path to become a nurse. He changed his mind and decided to earn a badge and become a law enforcement officer. Shortly after returning home from Afghanistan in 2013, he began working to make his dream a reality. “After my deployment, I ...
Every year The Home Depot Foundation’s Community Impact Grants program awards grants of up to $5,000 to charitable veterans groups like VFW Posts for repair and renovation of their buildings. Grants will be awarded in the form of The Home Depot gift cards for the purchase of tools, building materials, or services. All work should be performe...
WASHINGTON– Thousands of members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States volunteer their time at local Department of Veterans Affairs health care facilities every year to make sure their fellow veterans receive the compassion and support they need and deserve. The VFW now wants to recognize their selfless contributions as VA Volu...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The VFW is pleased to introduce “VFW Post Pride,” a new platform to showcase the dedicated support that VFW Posts, Auxiliaries and their members provide to veterans, service members, military families and to their communities. For more than 116 years, VFW Posts have acted as the pillars of support to local commu...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.— Today, Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald visited the VFW National Headquarters in Kansas City where he met with VFW officials to discuss a host of important veterans’ issues to include the state of the VA health care system, the claims backlog and veterans employment. The meeting with VFW officia...
WASHINGTON —Unsealed documents received by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States reveal that the Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to how Prudential Insurance Company of America could disperse death payments, and that the insurance giant may have aggressively trained its staff to put the company’s interests ahead of grie...
WASHINGTON (September 25, 2015) — Oneof the greatest ongoing debates in the aftermath of last year’s allegations of patients dying on secret waiting lists is where America’s veterans should get their care. According to a new report released this week by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, America’s veterans prefer that their c...
On September 29, 1899, thirteen men – all Spanish-American War veterans – gathered at a small tailor shop in the heart of Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the issues plaguing returning veterans. The men shared personal accounts of what was then, the most popular war in America’s history, but more importantly discussed what they could do...
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