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VFW National Military Services Update 35 members of VFW Post 3154 and its Ladies Auxiliary in Sonora, Calif., made the trek to Pickle Meadows in the Sierra Mountains, site of the Marine Corps’ Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC), to serve the Marines a steak dinner. MWTC is the major source of training for Marines going to Afghanistan....
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is condemning the senseless shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others attending a public event outside a Tucson supermarket on Saturday."This really hits home because the VFW is also a member of the Capitol Hill community," said its national commander Richard L. Eubank."Ms. Giffords is a valu...
Thefollowing column first appeared in the January 2011 issue of VFW magazine. Often in history, one war tends to overshadow another. To a certain extent, this has been the case with the Persian Gulf War. Sandwiched between Vietnam and the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, vets of 1991 are sometimes forgotten. On the war’s 20th anniversary it is only app...
“People often ask me what the POW/MIA flag means,” said Lindsey Botkin, Commander of Post 10342 in Huachuca City, Ariz. “It’s sad how many people close their minds to the price these POW/MIA’s and their families paid, and continue to pay, in the name of freedom.”As a Vietnam veteran and personal friend to a former POW, Botkin found this unacceptab...
As clean-up and recovery efforts continue in Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., after an EF-3 tornado tore through the area on New Year’s Eve, the VFW has come to the aid of service members and military families with $57,500 in emergency financial aid. According to The National Weather Service survey teams, the Fort suffered the worst damage in the regio...
As a new decade begins, VFW is more determined than ever to fight for key veterans’ issues.“We’ve set some fierce objectives in this year’s Priority Goals, and we’re determined to see it through for our veterans,” explained Raymond Kelley, VFW Legislative Director. “But we need a lot of support to get the job done.”Kelley is calling on all VFW me...
The VFW Publications Department announced today that it is accepting submissions for VFW’s 2011 National Publications Contest. All publications will be categorized by the membership size of the Department, District or Post they represent. For the contest, Departments will be defined as: large (24,000 or more members), medium (10,000...
Women play an important role in the military. The VFW is working hard to make sure these women are taken care of long after they return home. Together with several other local veterans organizations, VFW Post 6917 and District 3 in New Mexico organized a women veterans’ conference, called “Women in Defense of America.” The daylong conference fea...
Tremendous challenges face America’s military families, especially when frequent relocations are involved.Military families move approximately every two years and military children will attend six to nine different schools between kindergarten and high school graduation. Students face the stress of making new friends and leaving others behind. Th...
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