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Dec 03 2021

Leading the Fight Against Cyber Hackers

Jeremy Miller lives to shatter preconceived barriers, basking in the enlightenment waiting on the other end of them. As a former Green Beret, it comes with the territory. With an insatiable thirst for clawing at his limitations, he followed a final tour of duty in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard in 2010 by taking up ultra running The Westfield, Indiana, native began training as a marathoner, but 26 miles turned into more than 200 miles per race, requiring two hi...

Dec 02 2021

Virginia Post is Chartered in Less Than Six Months

Alex McKenna has been part of the VFW family since he was 5 years old. His enthusiasm for the VFW has only grown now that he is a member. Most recently, he worked to charter a new Post in Virginia in less than six months. McKenna’s grandfather, who was a WWII veteran, was a charter member of Post 7462 in Piermont, New York. His dad, a Vietnam veteran, took him to a turkey shoot at the Post when McKenna was 5 years old. His grandmother, a Navy veteran, was quite active in...

Nov 29 2021

'A Lot of Pride in Our Community'

VFW Post 4217 in Warm Springs, Oregon, for the first time in its history, earned All-American Post honors for 2019-2020. For Post Commander Tamera Calhoun Coffee, who has led the Post since 2013, this honor was something she and her Post members worked hard to attain. “This was something I had been thinking about for some time,” Calhoun Coffee said. “It was the one honor that I really wanted to earn, and I had tried for several years.” Located in the Confederated Tribes ...

Nov 29 2021

Army Aircraft Honor Native Americans

Vietnam veterans most likely have vivid memories of the Army’s UH-1H Iroquois “Huey” helicopters. The most commonly used helicopter in the Vietnam War, the Huey was used for troop insertions and extractions as well as medical evacuations off the battlefield. While “Huey” was its nickname, its true name of Iroquois was named for the Native American tribe of warriors who hail from the northeast area of the United States. And it’s not the only helicopter with such a lineage...

Nov 24 2021

Living a Thankful Life

WASHINGTON — What are you thankful for? It’s a question often asked around the table during the Thanksgiving feast, met with as much enthusiasm as the dinner rolls being passed around. What most everyone really wants to get to is the turkey. In modern America, Thanksgiving Thursday has become the appetizer to the main course – Black Friday. The gift-giving reason for the post-turkey day discount shopping extravaganza even seems to have turned into a competition where the...