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KANSAS CITY, Mo. –The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) proudly announced today it has joined forces with Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) through a memorandum of understanding focused on increasing veterans’ access to a combined health and wellness network, while offering camaraderie and support from fellow service members, veterans ...
When former VFW Post 2146 Commander Bob Akins of Idaho Falls, Idaho, created the Veterans’ Appreciation Hockey Game in 2006, the motive was personal. As a Canadian native, Akins joined the U.S. Air Force in 1963 and served at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam from July 1966 to July 1967 with the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing Squadron. After returning...
The members of VFW Post 7916 in Occoquan, Virginia, have demonstrated a commitment to their mission of “Honoring the Dead by Helping the Living” throughout the pandemic. The Post made sure members received health and welfare checks so that those most at-risk, or in need, received essentials. They also delivered food to residents of the ...
When blood shortages caused by COVID-19 swept across the country last year, the New York Blood Center in New York City turned to VFW Post 4589. Honoring a partnership that stretches more than half-a-decade long, the Post in Spotswood, New Jersey, about 40 miles south of New York City, opened its doors three times a month for blood drives administer...
A VFW Post in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Bowie, Maryland, donated $2,400 to a veterans’ home in Charlotte Hall, Maryland, on Jan. 25. VFW Post 8065 made the donation and presented a plaque to the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home. The contribution was given in honor of Robert “Bob” Gload, a Vietnam War veteran and Air Force pilot ...
When threatened by severe regional flooding in March, the VFW Department of West Virginia called on local Posts to assist neighboring communities in need. Following a declared state of emergency for 18 counties by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on March 4, Dept. Commander David Moske issued a memo that prompted local Posts to join the flood relief ...
Congratulations to VFW Post 3701 in Lakeview, Michigan, for being named the VFW's #StillServing Post of the Month for February 2021. VFW Post 3701 quickly mobilized as the pandemic reached their Lakeview, Michigan, community in spring 2020. They knew protective gear already was in short supply for hospitals, so they began to help by making face ma...
Portia Bethea, Esquire, is #StillServing. She enlisted with the New Jersey Army National Guard in 2010 and spent seven years learning all she could. She credits that time with giving her the desire and knowledge to continue serving for the rest of her life – personally and professionally. After transitioning out of the military, Bethea earned...
A Vietnam War veteran in Washington hopes a program that he began continues for generations to come. VFW Department of Washington member Bob Rawe, who served in the Air Force, began treating veterans to a meal at his home in 2008. “My goal was to thank our military veterans – young and old – for the honorable service,” Rawe ...
A VFW Life member in New York was inspired to start a program honoring local veterans and military members during a trip with his wife in the Catskills Mountains. “We were driving through Cairo (New York) and saw banners with service members on them,” retired Army 1st Sgt. Bill Forte said. “My wife (Doris) and I pulled over to loo...
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