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9/12/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce its Unmet Needs program set a new record by awarding more than $2 million in financial assistance grants to nearly 900 military and veteran families during its 2016-2017 program year. The new record shatters last year’s program record of $550,000 being distributed to 184 families. “The VFW Unmet Needs program continues to touch many lives every day,” said VFW National Commander Keith Harman,...

8/3/2017 - Drawing has been a part of Mike Rodriguez’s life since childhood, but a wound that ended his military career also put his illustrator tendencies on hold. Rodriguez, who served in Iraq from June to November 2004, with Bravo Co., 1st Bn., 8th Marines, as a rifleman, was wounded on Thanksgiving Day 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq. He was shot, losing nerve feeling and fine-motor skills on his right side. His shoulder was dislocated, he said, and he nearly lost his right leg to compa...

4/11/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is offering up to $5,000 in emergency assistance grants to each of the nearly three dozen student veterans who once attended Westech College, a now defunct for-profit vocational school in southern California. “The affected student veterans were receiving a monthly stipend to go to school, but with Westech’s sudden closure, they are now left without a school and without an income, yet the bills keep c...

3/28/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce that its Unmet Needs program has already exceeded $1 million in financial assistance grants to more than 420 military and veteran families since the VFW’s fiscal year began in September. This puts Unmet Needs on track for the highest level of assistance provided in a single year since the program’s inception in 2004, more than doubling its previous assistance record with six months left to ...

2/9/2017 - Washington, D.C. — The United States World War I Centennial Commission has officially announced the national ceremony commemorating the centennial of the United States entry into World War I, a war that changed the nation and the world forever. The national ceremony, “In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace: Centennial Commemoration of the U.S. Entry in World War I,” will be held on April 6, 2017 at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo. Invited atte...

7/26/2017 - The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States concluded its 118th National Convention today with the election of Keith Harman of Delphos, Ohio, as its new national commander. Harman served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969, including service in Vietnam as a crew chief and door gunner on Huey helicopters. During his acceptance speech, he spoke highly of the nearly 1.7 million members of VFW and its Auxiliary, citing the members’ camaraderie as the driving force to th...

2/11/2013 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is pleased to announce that Burger King® has surpassed $2 million in donations to VFW’s Unmet Needs program. Last year marked the sixth consecutive year participating Burger King® Franchise Owned Restaurants across the United States joined together with the VFW Foundation to raise funds for the program. Created in 2004, VFW’s Unmet Needs program provides emergency financial assistance to veterans, service members and...

6/26/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is pleased to announce that participating BURGER KING® franchisees are set to kick off their summer fundraiser to benefit the VFW’s Unmet Needs program. Members of VFW Post 56 in Leavenworth, Kan., visit their local Burger King to say 'thank you' for their support of the VFW Unmet Needs program. During the month of July, patrons are encouraged to visit any of the 21...

11/12/2014 - November 2004’s decisive Battle of Fallujah was the deadliest sustained urban fighting for U.S. troops in the Iraq War. American forces rooted out 3,000 terrorists. By Tim Dyhouse This article appears in the November/December 2014 issue of VFW magazine Fighting a fanatical, dug-in enemy in the mazelike infrastructure of his own city has proved disastrous to armies in past wars. But the November 2004 Battle of Fallujah could be considered a textbook urban assaul...

5/1/2017 - Six VFW-member owned companies were recently included in a Forbes magazine article profiling its Top 25 Veteran-Founded Startups in America. Forbes recognized the firms as new companies (less than five years old) owned by young veterans (Post 9/11 service) and ranked each based on factors such as revenue growth, employee headcounts and external capital raised. Here’s information about each company, as well as some background on the VFW member listed as the principal owne...