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Apr 29 2020

Proud to Serve in the Fight for Veterans

VFW Life member Ron Cherry, 48, spends his days helping fellow veterans and their families. In serving them, he feels he has found his purpose in life. As a supervisor in the National Veterans Service (NVS) office in Kansas City, Missouri, Cherry oversees a team committed to assisting veterans as well as their spouses and dependents. He’s pro...

Apr 29 2020

VFW Scholarship Helps Vet ‘Put Letters Behind His Name’

“I find when you’re doing something that’s right for you, everything else eventually falls into place,” said 25-year-old Cody Taylor of Crouse, North Carolina. He understands the importance of hard work and an education to achieve the things he sets out to do. As a drilling Navy Reservist for five and a half years, Taylor vo...

Apr 28 2020

VFW Kicks Off Annual Youth Scholarship Competitions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is now accepting entries for its 2020-21 Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen youth scholarship competitions. The announcement comes just weeks after the VFW’s 2020 Legislative Conference concluded in Washington, D.C., where the top national winners of both contests were recogn...

Apr 27 2020

Veterans Turn War Experiences Into Poetry

In late March 2003, while standing outside Nasiriyah, Iraq, former Marine Sgt. Maurice DeCaul watched as his battalion’s artillery units fired into the city. “On the outskirts of the city of Nasiriyah, on our right and left flanks, you had Marine battalions bombarding the city,” he said. “Hearing the guns going off and then ...

Apr 27 2020

'You Got This'

Self-described “military brat” Yolanda Eddings, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, knew from a young age that she wanted to join the armed services. She enlisted in 2007, following in her father’s footsteps after growing up seeing his career in the Army. Eddings’ military career spanned nine years. She was deployed to Iraq and...

Apr 24 2020

Feeding Those in Need

A VFW Post and its Auxiliary in Kansas City recently ramped up their monthly food drive efforts in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Taking the proper precautions as advised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Post 5606, partnering with Humana in Kansas City, Mo., turned it’s parking lot into a drive-thru that assisted more than...

Apr 24 2020

Veteran Plans to Pay It Forward

Kyle Wickert, 32, of Hartford, Wisconsin, is a member of the VFW and says he will be for life. He is grateful for the support he received and plans to pay it forward in the future. Wickert joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard in 2003, shortly after his seventeenth birthday. His service provided him a sense of purpose, duty, and community. It wa...

Apr 22 2020

Free Food and Water for Many

A VFW Post and its Auxiliary in the small eastern Colorado town of Penrose collaborated on March 24 with a local non-profit to provide food and water amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Taking the proper precautions as advised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Post 2788 assisted My Neighbor’s Cupboard, a Penrose-based non-profit, in ...

Apr 21 2020

‘The Real Deal:’ War Veterans Bring Realism to Battle Re-Enactments

Sitting astride his horse in November 2019 at the “Tank Farm” in Nokesville, Va., U.S. cavalry enthusiast Ron Bingham explained his passion for bringing American military history to life. “Any day on horseback is a good day,” said Bingham, a member of VFW Post 9808 in Mechanicsville, Va. “I really love hearing people s...

Apr 20 2020

VFW Cancels Reno National Convention

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars announced today its 121st VFW National Convention scheduled to be held in Reno, Nevada, this July has been officially cancelled. Thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates were expected to gather to represent the organization’s total membership of more than 1.6 million at the weeklong event...