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Dec 09 2019

Sport Clips Haircuts' $1.25M Donation to VFW Help A Hero Scholarships Will Support Veterans' Education for Civilian Careers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Dec. 9, 2019) – A $1.25 million donation by Sport Clips Haircuts to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation will boost the impact of the Help A Hero Scholarship program that supports education for civilian careers. Sport Clips Founder and CEO Gordon Logan, who is a veteran and VFW Life member, presented the million-dollar-pl...

Dec 06 2019

VFW Remembers Our Fallen at Pearl Harbor

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On the 78th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Veterans of Foreign Wars solemnly honors the 2,403 men and women who died in the devastating attack Dec. 7, 1941. VFW National Commander William “Doc” Schmitz, along with VFW Auxiliary National President Peggy Haake, will travel to Pearl Harbor to lay a ...

Dec 04 2019

Operation Christmas Star

Christmas 1965 promised to be an especially lonely holiday for the 200,000 American servicemen and women deployed to South Vietnam. They found themselves in a foreign land far from their families, under strange and often very dangerous circumstances. And regardless of their job or duty location, these people had a war to fight. The cargo ships and ...

Dec 03 2019

‘Comfort Rucks’ for Homeless Vets

Homeless veterans in Missouri found helping hands in VFW and Auxiliary members. During the Department of Missouri’s Council of Administration community service event at Branson’s Chateau on the Lake in September, members filled 172 “Comfort Rucks” for homeless vets. Post and Auxiliary members, as well as corporate sponsors a...

Dec 02 2019

Longest-Serving Texas Ranger a VFW Member

Joe W. Haralson is the longest-serving Texas Ranger, but the significance of that accolade doesn’t resonate with the Vietnam War veteran. “All that means is I was born before the rest of them,” said Haralson, a member of VFW Post 8248 in La Marque, Texas. Haralson joined the Rangers in June 1981 after a decade-long stint with the ...

Nov 29 2019

Medicare Annual Enrollment is Happening Now

Medicare annual enrollment opened in October and will close on Dec. 7. Determining which Medicare plan is the best is an important decision for individuals nearing age 65 or those who qualify due to a disability. According to Ed Sandrick, director of Humana Veterans Channel, even veterans receiving benefits through the VA might be interested in add...

Nov 27 2019

VFW Wishes Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) wishes all veterans, service members, military families, and our advocates a happy Thanksgiving holiday. “Thanksgiving is a time of reflection – a time for us to give thanks to the men and women who serve, and have served, this great nation honorably,” said VFW National Commander William “D...

Nov 27 2019

‘The Polar Bears Are Finally Home’

Among many of the VFW’s priorities, advocating for the return of America’s war dead from foreign lands was apparent even in the early days of the 120-year-old veterans’ organization. In the spring of 1929, members of the Polar Bear Association, a group of veterans of the 339th Infantry Regiment, asked VFW Commander-in-Chief Eugene...

Nov 26 2019

‘Honored’ to Make History

Members of VFW Post 1822 in Plymouth, Mass., were well represented during a Sept. 1 ceremony for a new ship’s bell for the Mayflower II. Post members donated their personal military service medals and other items that were melted down and cast into the ship’s new bell. The bell was cast for a ship that was built almost seven decades ago...

Nov 25 2019

Remembering Veterans

December brings a slew of decorations, but a wreath adorning the tombstone of a veteran tops the list for hordes of volunteers annually. While the month’s decorations speak the holiday language, National Wreaths Across America Day dictates an all too familiar message for veterans everywhere — Remember, Honor, Teach. For Bill Rogers, a L...