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Oct 20 2022

'It Meant Actively Helping A Combat Veteran'

In seeking to find an honorable cause to donate proceeds fromtheir successful annual fundraisers in 2019, VFW Post 7155 members in Trappe, Pennsylvania, found Alpha Bravo Canine (ABC). Touted as the first and only Philadelphia-based nonprofit of its kind, ABC donates service dogs to veterans suffering from PTSD, TBI and other combat-related disabil...

Oct 20 2022

‘Don’t Give Up — You Have to Fight for Yourself’

John Wayne Massaro, 68, followed in his father’s footsteps and served in the Navy from 1972 to 1992. “I joined to see the world like my dad, Mario,” he said. Throughout 20 years of service, Massaro sustained several injuries that continue to affect him. “In 1976, I was in a car accident while driving back to our ship in Gaet...

Oct 19 2022

Canine Companion Helps Veteran Encourage Others

After 26 years serving in the Army as Military Police, Geraldine Rimpley wanted to become Commander of the VFW Department of Colorado. But she was unsure whether she was up to the challenge. Three decades in the military included combat deployments to Somalia, Kosovo and Iraq and left Rimpley with Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS). “I have always a...

Oct 18 2022

Ohio BURGER KING Franchise Donates $75,000 to VFW Unmet Needs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is pleased to announce that today, TOMS King Services BURGER KING® franchisee’s Chief Operating Officer Erin Hasselgren traveled to Salem, Ohio, to present VFW Post 892 and District 6 Commander Douglas Brannon with a $75,000 donation to the VFW Unmet Needs program. The donation, ...

Oct 14 2022

'A Growing Need'

A VFW Post in the Peach State is making a 12-week-long combat trauma course free of charge for veterans and their families. VFW Post 5376 in Calhoun, Georgia's, Post Commander Johnathan Brown – a staff sergeant of the Georgia National Guard’s 1st Sqdn., 108th Cav, 48th Inf. BCT – said that only a handful of people have signed up f...

Oct 14 2022

Weigh Your Options

VFW encourages Camp Lejeune veterans to evaluate if they want to participate in recent lawsuits. The new Honoring Our PACT Act law is omnibus legislation that includes the Camp Lejeune Justice Act. The section of the law states people who drank or used contaminated water for at least 30 days between Aug. 1, 1953, and Dec. 31, 1987, at the North Car...

Oct 13 2022

A March to Remember

Members of VFW Posts 4763 and 755 in Illinois combined forces for the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to honor all lives lost during the attacks, as well as fellow service members killed defending the nation from such terrorism. On Saturday, Sept. 10, members of Posts 4763 in Chatham and 755 in Springfield, about 11 miles from ea...

Oct 13 2022

Happy Birthday US Navy!

WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins in with our grateful nation in celebrating the birthday of the U.S. Navy, who has protected and defended freedom both at home and around the globe for the past 247 years. On Oct. 13, 1775, a resolution of the Continental Congress established what is now the United States Navy with “a...

Oct 13 2022

Growing Together

With an abundance of new treatments for PTSD these days, members of VFW Post 2811 in Gainesville, Florida, planted their own with help from a local gardening group this year. Though gardening therapy has cast ripples in the treatment for PTSD, Post 2811 Surgeon General Avery Owen and former Post 2811 Quartermaster Paul Deis faced a predicament when...

Oct 12 2022

WWII Vet Turns 100

Reaching the ripe age of 100 comes with many stories to tell, and more than 130 friends, family, and state officials gathered at Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore on Sept. 10 to hear Victor Fuentealba tell them. A World War II veteran who served with the Army’s 83rd and 84th Infantry Divisions in the European Theatre, Fuentealba w...