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10/22/2025 - Kansas City, Mo., was the host city for the 119th VFW National Convention, July 21-25, 2018. A number of distinguished guests and award recipients, as well as a number of elected officials from Missouri and Kansas appeared during the weeklong event. In addition to an address by President Trump, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford, Command Sgt. Maj. William F. Thetford, Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, Maximilian Uriarte and Andrew Lumish all received VFW nation...

10/22/2025 - 2019 Legislative Conference This year's 2019 Legislative Conference was held in Washington, D.C., March 3-6, 2019. Since 1949, the VFW's annual Legislative Conference has provided an opportunity for VFW leaders from each state to personally lobby their respective lawmakers and watch as the VFW's current Commander-in-Chief testifies on Capitol Hill before the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees on behalf of veterans. Guest speakers are invited to address co...

10/22/2025 - Watch the Commander-in-Chief's full testimony and other clips from the 2016 Legislative Conference.. Since 1949, VFW's annual Legislative Conference has provided an opportunity for VFW leaders from each state to personally lobby their respective lawmakers and watch as VFW's current Commander-in-Chief testifies on Capitol Hill before the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees on behalf of veterans. Guest speakers are invited to address conference delegates, and sin...

11/4/2025 - Every year, thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates gather to represent the organization’s more than 1.5 million combined membership at the weeklong VFW National Convention. While there, our mission is to approve new national priorities to guide our organization as we lobby Congress on issues important to the nation’s veterans, service members and their families. Convention delegates also elect new leadership, as well as recognize prominent individuals and or...

11/4/2025 - Reels from the 126th VFW National Convention On Demand Every year, thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates gather to represent the organization’s more than 1.4 million combined membership at the weeklong VFW National Convention. While there, our mission is to approve new national priorities to guide our organization as we lobby Congress on issues important to the nation’s veterans, service members and their families. Convention delegates also elect new leader...

11/4/2025 - Every year, thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates gather to represent the organization’s total membership of more than 1.5 million at the weeklong VFW National Convention. While there, our mission is to approve new national priorities to guide our organization as we lobby Congress on issues important to the nation’s veterans, service members and their families. Convention delegates also elect new leadership, as well as recognize prominent individuals and organization...

9/5/2017 - Efforts from a Rhode Island VFW Post have provided Afghanistan War veteran Tim Underwood with an all-terrain wheelchair, improving his quality of life. Underwood, who served in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 with the 3rd Sqdn., 61st Cav, 4th BCT, 4th Inf. Div., was wounded in April 2010. He was shot three times (once in the throat/jaw, once in the spine and once in the kidney), and spent roughly seven months hospitalized. As a result, Underwood is paralyzed from the waist...

8/21/2017 - WASHINGTON — The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is saluting President Trump for signing the VFW-supported Global War on Terrorism Memorial Act into law late Friday. The signing now clears the way for the GWOT Memorial Foundation to work with the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission to secure federal approval for acreage on the National Mall, as well as coordinate a national competition for the memorial’s design. It also e...

4/26/2017 - By Brian Duffy — This month marks the third anniversary of a nationwide crisis in access to care that branded the Department of Veterans Affairs as an inept and corrupt government bureaucracy that was failing in its primary mission to care for those who had borne the battle. In the aftermath, Congress quickly crafted a new law to improve the Secretary of Veterans Affairs’ authority to remove senior VA executives for performance or misconduct. The new authority did not l...

1/13/2017 - After record flooding killed 23 people and destroyed many small towns in West Virginia last June, VFW members united to provide assistance and seek aid of their own. The June 2016 floods in West Virginia were what the National Weather Service called an “exceptional meteorological event”—one that happens once every 1,000 years. The floods experienced throughout central and southern West Virginia were caused by a “derecho,” or a long line of rapidly moving thunderstorms, l...