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9/6/2011 - VFW National Military Services Update The Elko Archery Club in Elko, Nev., recently donated $500 to VFW’s National Military Services (NMS). The club is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering, expanding and perpetuating the practice of field archery, as well as the use of bow and arrow to hunt wild game. Each year the club holds an Indoor Safari 3-D Shoot with over 500 archers, and a portion of all proceeds are donated to charity. “This year we had club mem...

10/22/2025 - 121st VFW National Convention Thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates were expected to gather to represent the organization’s total membership of more than 1.5 million at the weeklong event. But when the coronavirus forced us to cancel the VFW National Convention in its current, we weren't going to just sit on the sidelines. Earlier this year, the VFW launched the #StillServing campaign to bring more awareness to the many ways veterans continue to serve beyond the m...

11/4/2025 - VFW National Convention Every year, thousands of VFW and Auxiliary delegates gather to represent the organization’s total membership of nearly 1.6 million at the weeklong 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 orga...

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...

3/20/2013 - This afternoon the Senate passed an amendment to the Defense Continuing Resolution,H.R. 933, that will reinstate the military Tuition Assistance, or TA, program under sequestration. The amendment, S. Amdt. 72, was introduced by Sens. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and championed by the VFW, American Legion and Student Veterans of America. On Monday, VFW Commander-in-Chief John Hamilton sent an “all hands” call to VFW advocates in an effort to muster su...

5/23/2013 - The national commander of America’s largest and oldest major combat veterans organization is applauding Congress this week for passing the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, which now heads to the White House for the president’s signature. John E. Hamilton, a triple Purple Heart recipient who leads the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, said Congress followed the roadmap laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court when they overturned the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 last...

6/4/2013 - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 almost a year ago on the grounds that lying was protected speech, but justices on both sides of the 6-3 decision also provided a roadmap requiring any future legislation to be narrower in focus than just to penalize people for simple lying. Yesterday, the president signed the new Stolen Valor Act of 2013 into law. Said John E. Hamilton, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U...

9/20/2013 - WASHINGTON — The national legislative committee of America’s oldest and largest major war veterans’ organization concluded its fall meeting here Wednesday with a direct message to all 535 members of Congress: “Finish Strong for Veterans.” "It’s a message to Congress that the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is watching, and so is the entire nation,” said VFW National Commander William A. Thien, a Vietnam veteran from Georgetown, Ind. “The federal government...

9/16/2013 - WASHINGTON — The top leadership of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is in Washington for the VFW’s Fall Legislative Conference and to meet with key officials in the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense. “It is critical for the VFW to give our veteran and military communities a voice on Capitol Hill, especially with the end of the federal government’s fiscal year two weeks away and still no end to the continuing damage sequestration is doing inside the Defe...

9/17/2013 - VFW Riders are escorting a Purple Heart as it makes its way home this week from St. Louis, Mo., to Dayton, Nev. Donna Gregory found the Purple Heart over 12 years ago while sifting through boxes in a closet. When she pulled out the medal with Pvt. John F. Eddington’s name engraved on it, no one could tell her where it came from or why it was there. Along with the Purple Heart, Donna found a letter written to the soldier’s baby daughter while he was serving in Italy. I...