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WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars’ (VFW) annual Washington Conference begins Sunday, Mar. 1, in Washington, D.C., and will continue through Thursday, Mar. 5. Several hundred VFW and Auxiliary members are anticipated to arrive in the nation’s capital, traveling from around the world to conduct organizational business and pa...
Despite retiring from the Navy in 2021, Steven Michaels remains dedicated to helping others. A life member of VFW Post 2135 in Peoria, Arizona, Michaels continues to serve his community and fellow veterans through volunteer work that spans from honoring local Eagle Scouts to helping allies who once served alongside U.S. forces overseas. “I&rs...
This summer, beginning on Thursday, June 25, VFW Post 6418 in St. Albans, West Virginia, will be partaking in an opportunity that Post members and officers have been excited about for a long time: Hosting the mobile Vietnam War memorial “The Moving Wall.” With a “strong desire through his past experiences,” Post Commander Ge...
Jane Smith* served for four years in the military. She began attending college while she was still enlisted to get her degree quicker and is now enrolled at California State University, Northridge. Smith’s life changed after she discovered the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” during a Google search for scholarship...
For more than a decade, Wayne Moore drove to work on Route 28 every day unaware he was driving right past Rose Hill Cemetery, a historic Black cemetery tucked away in an industrial part of Manassas, Virginia. But the worst part, he says now, was that the cemetery had fallen into disrepair, and the veterans laid to rest there were all but forgotten....
On Dec. 31, WWII veteran and VFW Post 609 member Bernard Long celebrated another year past his centennial birthday with an outpouring of love and recognition from fellow Post 609 members and individuals across the country who were excited to see him turn 108. According to a newspaper article by Jeanne Theismann for the Alexandria Gazette Packet, Po...
Years ago, while working as a firefighter in Rockford, Illinois, Tom Dummer became intrigued by the ideas in a novel he read between dispatches, titled It’s Your Ship by Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff. The novel stresses the importance of building trust by taking the time and effort to listen to colleagues. By trying to incorporate their values a...
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) is demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) immediately rescind its interim final rule changing how disability ratings are evaluated, warning that the policy threatens to unfairly reduce benefits for disabled veterans. In a letter sent yesterday, the VFW raised...
Former Staff Sergeant Donna L. Jefferies, 64, lived in constant pain. She lived with limited mobility and dexterity challenges for 44 years after serving in the Air Force and National Guard. “I come from a military family,” Jefferies said. “My father served in the United States Army during World War II. My brother served in the Na...
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published an interim final rule that immediately changes how disability ratings are evaluated, prompting the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to send a letter outlining its concerns to VA Secretary Doug Collins. For years, courts held that VA could not reduce ratings based on the e...
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