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Sean Dreer served in the Navy for 27 years, from 1987 to 2015. He now lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he is a member of The Turtle Post 3846 in Churubusco. Dreer is #StillServing his community by volunteering at a few local organizations, including Parkview Home Health & Hospice Fort Wayne, Alliance of Therapy Dogs Cheyenne WY, and his loca...
A new VFW Post located in Puerto Princesa City in the Philippines province of Palawan bears the name of Glenn Weddell McDole, a WWII veteran, now deceased, who experienced what some would consider a living hell as a prisoner of war after the fall of Corregidor in 1942. The Glenn W. McDole VFW Post 12224 was instituted on Oct. 22, with VFW Commander...
D.W. “Bill” Miles served in the Army for 28 years and is now a member of Grant-Reeves VFW Post 7720. The Des Moines, Iowa, native currently lives in Clarksville, Georgia. Miles is #StillServing his veteran community by representing the VFW in a variety of leadership positions at the Post, District and Department levels. As the Post serv...
Mike Rogers joined the Army in 1968 right as he was about to be drafted for Vietnam. He first served from 1968-72 where he attended Infantry Officer Candidate School and airborne school. He then deployed to Vietnam as a rifle platoon leader in the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He served a second time from 1983-93 as a special forces soldier with assignme...
VFW Life member Frank Lahtinen is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran currently living in Edgewater, Colorado, with his family. After retiring from service, Lahtinen started a website called Operation Veteran Strong, a free resource and service guide available to any veteran. Operation Veteran Strong is designed to support the mental and physical health of...
VFW Life member Roger Felix is a veteran #StillServing with VFW Post 9389 in Caribou, Maine, where he advises younger adults at the Loring Job Corps Center military preparatory program. He teaches them about veteran life and gets them involved in his Post’s service projects. Felix knows that bearing witness to veterans and their sacrifice can...
VFW Life member Clayton Yantis is a Pawnee, Illinois, veteran #StillServing as the Illinois state lead for The Fallen Outdoors, an all-volunteer nonprofit. During his time in the Army, Yantis completed his Master Resiliency Certification to provide low-level counseling and resiliency skills to veterans. Today he uses that training as a member of Th...
Clarence Dietz is a veteran #StillServing as a Gold Legacy Life member of VFW Post 3031 in Rogers, Arkansas. Dietz serves on the Post’s House Committee where he handles the general maintenance of their entire facility, from painting walls to fixing the refrigerator. He’s an active participant in many of the Post’s local community ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leading veterans service organizations, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), today released The Independent Budget Recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026. The report serves as a comprehensive roadmap to en...
Doug Olson is a veteran #StillServing in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Olson, a Life member at VFW Post 328, does whatever he can to give back to his community, including volunteering at local events and helping his VFW Post. Every week, Olson searches obituaries from the surrounding area to maintain a list of deceased veterans to be honored at the VFW&rsq...
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