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Each year for the past eleven years, three exceptional teachers have been recognized by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) for their outstanding commitment to teach Americanism and patriotism to their students. The VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award recipients are selected from entries submitted by local VFW Posts in every state, Dis...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This week on VFW Radio'sThe National Defensewe speak to Rich Kolb, Director, Publications and Editor-in-Chief for the VFW magazine. Kolb discusses the magazine’s special edition, “To War and Back,” a special tribute to America’s newest generation of war veterans.(Listen now) "To War and Back" covers...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — VFW magazine’s latest special publication,To War and Back: Afghanistan and Iraq — A New Generation of Veterans, is now available. The magazine’s editors createdTo War and Backto honor the sacrifices of today’s warriors. This special publication deals with matters of critical concern, including the l...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is assisting in humanitarian efforts in Haiti by providing U.S. service members — with relatives currently located in Haiti — with the funds necessary to purchase airline tickets to the devastated island, so that they may locate, assist or make burial arrangements for relatives...
Even in a climate of high young vet unemployment, jobs still are available for returning veterans. Programs online and around the country can help. Employment opportunities for Iraq and Afghanistan vets have fluctuated dramatically. As of October 2009, the unemployment rate for post-Sept. 11, 2001, vets stood at 11.6%, according to the Labor Depar...
VFW Radio goes to the source to learn what the DVA is doing to overcome a claims backlog that is currently delaying benefits payments to hundreds of thousands of military veterans. To listen to what the 60 Minutes didn’t reveal about VA’s efforts go to:www.thenationaldefense.com.
WASHINGTON — The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. said the most important takeaway fromlast night's 60 Minutes piece on the Department of Veterans Affairswas that the VA is aggressively working to overcome a claims backlog that is currently delaying benefits payments to hundreds of thousands of disabled military ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.— The VFW Publications Department announced today that it is accepting submissions for VFW’s 2010 National Publications Contest. All publications will be categorized by the membership size of the Department, District or Post they represent. For the contest,Departmentswill be defined as: •large (25,000 or more membe...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Thanks to the efforts of the VFW, approximately 21,000 lbs. of chocolate has been gathered and shipped to deployed U.S. troops stationed at forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan. VFW Departments and Posts from 38 states participated in the chocolate drive with Virginia leading the effort with nearly 8,000 lbs. Penn...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A $250,000 gift to the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Operation Uplink “Free Call Day” program by Texas-based Sport Clips is expected to provide more than 6.5 million minutes of free calls home for soldiers over the holidays. Sport Clips' donation is the single largest corporate gift to the program to date and will ...
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