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9/21/2012 - Today we salute the men and women who served and sacrificed to keep America free. We also recognize the families of the missing, those who continue to hope and pray that their loved ones will one day return home from their wars. Eighty-three thousand Americans are currently listed as missing and unaccounted-for, dating back to World War II. Eighty-three thousand Americans who have yet to return home from their wars. We pray that these Americans and their families are ...

10/24/2011 - [Carteret] Mayor Dan Reiman will be joined by the Borough Council, residents, and military veterans on October 27th for a Ribbon Cutting ceremony, formally unveiling “The Commander George Lisicki Veterans Apartments,” Carteret’s first veterans’ apartment building. The project has been dedicated in honor of past National Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Commander George Lisicki, an advocate of a number of nationwide programs and services. The ceremony will begin at 3:00 p...

2/18/2016 - This article originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of the VFW magazine. Camp Trotter for Children is perhaps the epitome of idyllic summer camp. Located on the shores of Bills Lake at Newaygo, a 30-minute drive away from Grand Rapids, Mich., the summer camp for children is bustling from dawn until dark six weeks out of the year. Donated in 1949 by WWI veteran and past VFW Department of Michigan Commander Ralph Trotter (1934-35), the camp was once known as VFW...

9/4/2009 - Newly elected VFW National Commander Thomas J. Tradewell Sr. just returned from his first assignment, a fact-finding mission to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), continuing VFW’s long standing effort to obtain a full-accounting of U.S. POW/MIA’s. He sits down with VFW's The National Defense to talk about the importance of this long-standing mission, the importance of VFW membership and changing the outdated perception of the VFW. Listen now.

9/21/2009 - Commander-in-Chief Tommy Tradewell says now is the time to act to ensure that a strong VA health care system is in place for future veterans. In Vietnam in October 1967, from the DMZ to the Mekong River Delta, U.S. forces were heavily engaged with the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). The area between Duc Pho and Chu Lai in I Corps was no exception to the fighting. Sent to Vietnam as part of the ongoing troop build-up was a young specialist 5 named Tommy Tradewell, who had...

3/31/2017 - B.J. Lawrence, national junior vice commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., and several VFW members from local Posts will join the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) at a special ceremony on April 5, to commence the restoration project of the POW/MIA Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Venice, Calif., and speak out against memorial desecration. The Venice memorial was recently vandalized for the second time in the past year, and restoration ef...

9/13/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Friday, Sept. 15, on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. calls on every American to join us as we salute the men and women who served and sacrificed to keep America free, while supporting the families of the missing who continue to keep the candle of hope alive. Today there are 83,000 Americans listed as missing and unaccounted-for from our nation’s wars going back to the beginning of World War II. That’s 83,0...

5/21/2019 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Today, staff members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. National Headquarters joined local VFW members in Concordia, Mo., to pay tribute to motorcyclists participating in the annual cross-country “Run for the Wall” motorcycle ride. Approximately 550 riders stopped to refuel in Concordia on their journey to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. The VFW covered the cost to fill up each biker’s tank,...

7/27/2022 - WASHINGTON — On the 69th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) pays tribute to those who served, fought and died on the Korean peninsula. On July 27, 1953, U.S., North Korean and Chinese military commanders, signed the Korean Armistice Agreement, bringing the Korean War to a close. A total of 36,576 Americans lost their lives and more than 92,000 were wounded in action during the course of the bloody three-year war on the Korea...

11/21/2008 - VFW Commander-in-Chief Glen Gardner is once again calling upon veterans of the Vietnam War to search their memory and files for any information that might be of value in determining the fate of Vietnam’s 300,000 MIAs and might be of assistance in the recovery of their remains. Providing information of this nature to the Vietnamese government helps to generate good will among its people and further assists U.S. efforts in its investigative and recovery operations for Ame...