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The VFW is excited to announce a new partnership with the USO, providing VFW and Ladies Auxiliary members with additional volunteer and service opportunities in their local communities. This partnership brings together two organizations that share common missions and rich histories supporting our troops and military families. VFW members have a pro...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Headquarters is proud to announce its sponsorship of the 2011 Army Reserve’s Best Warrior Competition Awards Dinner June 24. VFW will award various winners of the competition prizes, including iPads, Xbox Kinects, iPods, handycams and gift cards to Best Buy and Wal-Mart. The Army ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.— The VFW National Headquarters is pleased to announce it has now disbursed more than $100,000 in financialaid to military families victimized by the hundreds of deadly twisters that have swept across the nation so far this year. VFW state departments spread word of theVFW Unmet Needsprogram in storm-stricken areas throughout ...
By Bob Kerr Providence Journal It’s like the tent, the Providence tent, the one where the Marines from the 6th Motor Transit Battalion would gather when they weren’t out driving along the treacherous roads of Iraq. “We just want to get everybody back in the tent,” said Tim Galuza. Galuza and his friend Garry Crum once went 4...
The VFW National Headquarters is proud to announce it has reached $4,022,760 in emergency financial grants disbursed to U.S. service members and their families through the VFW Unmet Needs program. Officially launched June 6, 2004, Unmet Needs has become one of VFW’s most acclaimed programs among service members and their families, offering a ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is unique because all of our members have served overseas in a combat zone. Our nation is in debt to all of those who served, and we understand that returning home and reintegrating into society can cause stress in many aspects of life. Because of this, VFW is participating in a campaign with the U.S. Department o...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —VFW is pleased to announce it is thepresenting sponsor of the 22ndAnnualBataan Memorial Death Marchto be held at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, March 27, 2011. The March was created to honor the American service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II. These soldiers endured horrendous conditi...
By Rodney Richey, The Herald Bulletin ANDERSON, Ind.— Melvin E. “Bud” Biddle, the soft-spoken Anderson native who went on to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role in World War II’s infamous Battle of the Bulge, died Thursday at Saint John’s Medical Center. He was 87. Gov. Mitch Daniels, upon hearing th...
U.S. troops around the world received some sweet treats thanks to VFW members in California. Members of Post 5059 and its Ladies Auxiliary in Turlock spent a day packing boxes of candy and other items to send to deployed troops. Together with volunteers from American Legion Post 88, Legion Riders 88 and Sons of Legionnaires 88, they packed and ship...
VFW National Military Services Update North Carolina VFW Post 10001 is working with local businesses to provide much needed support to soldiers and their families through the North Carolina National Guard Family Programs. The idea for the project came after a member of Post 10001, Thomas Skidmore, read a newspaper article about veterans’ stru...
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