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Dec 08 2022

Georgia Forest Named for VFW Member

Tom Reilly spent his childhood playing and roaming the splendorous fields and forests in western DeKalb County, Georgia. The towns of Chamblee, Dunwoody and what is now Brookhaven were filled with wild life. Reilly’s love of this area northeast of Atlanta led to a life of forestry preservation. It seems appropriate that a greenspace along Bro...

Dec 07 2022

Fulfilling our Pact: Ensuring Effective Implementation of Toxic Exposure Legislation

Statement of Kristina Keenan, Assistant Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States For the Record United States House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs With Respect To Fulfilling our Pact: Ensuring Effective Implementation of Toxic Exposure Legislation WASHINGTON, D.C. Chairman Takan...

Dec 07 2022

VFW Remembers Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTON — Today is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) encourages all Americans to pause and reflect on the attack 81 years ago that changed the course of history and brought together the nation to defend our sovereignty, confront tyranny and win back freedom around the world. The Japanese attack re...

Dec 05 2022

WWII Rangers Earn Congressional Gold Medal

America’s World War II Army Rangers received a collective Congressional GoldMedal on June 7. President Joe Biden signed legislation P.L. 117-132 that day, which authorized the awards. They were recognized for their “bravery and sacrifice in combat” and earned the Gold Medal for “contributing greatly to the military success&r...

Dec 02 2022

‘We Are Always Thinking About Them’

Veterans living at Brickmont Assisted Living in Woodstock, Georgia, have a “Veterans Resource Reading Area” thanks to members of VFW Post 12002 in nearby Alpharetta. Past Post Chaplain Dennis Parmer said that when he established the reading area in June, he did it so that VFW would be represented each day at the facility. “We want...

Dec 01 2022

'This is Life-Changing for Our Patients’

They gathered on an afternoon stitched in gray, serenadedby a brass band playing on the manicured lawn of the American Legion Pavilion at the local VA hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts. Several dozen veterans, many confined to wheelchairs, welcomed a new trolley draped in the proverbial red, white and blue of their beloved nation on June 23, a $12...

Dec 01 2022

When Helyn Met Astro

Standing on the precipice of a life suffocated by an abusive marriage and post-traumatic stress, Helyn Stowe had a tennis ball dropped on her lap — once, twice, and three time’s a charm. With the weight of a loaded gun in her hand and body clinging to the couch of her New York home, Stowe kept receiving the unsolicited tennis ball from ...

Nov 30 2022

Fewer Veterans are Recommending Military Service

A report released in July says troops, veterans and their families in 2021 were less likely to recommend military service than in 2019. While most respondents still encouraged military service, the percentage dropped noticeably over the two-year interval. The Military Family Advisory Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing help to ...

Nov 29 2022

‘Proud Warrior Spirits’

After many years of planning, Native American veterans are set to be recognized fortheir military service to the nation. Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California, is the future home of the American Indian Veterans Memorial, the first of its kind. Since 2005, plans for the memorial have been in development. On March 14, then-VFW Departme...

Nov 28 2022

VFW Celebrates National Native American Heritage Month

During this year’s National Native American Heritage Month, VFW commemorates veterans who have served in the military and recognizes veterans of the past who fought overseas. Today, a monument dedicated to Native American troops can be visited at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Also, VA is making an effort to bring health care s...