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3/9/2026 - This is my story: a soldier story, a female story. Like private sector female CEO’s, female officers will find silver linings inside all the sacrifices they make as they find their way to the top. Storytelling is a great way to share these reminders. Young females in the Army do not need a lot of advice, just reminders of what those before them have done so they can find strength in it. My story has a few things I did right – with help along the way. I was serving as th...

3/31/2026 - St. Louis, Mo., was the host city to the 115th VFW National Convention, July 19-23, 2014. Approximately 10,000 VFW and Ladies Auxiliary members from around the world convened for the five-day event held at the America's Center in downtown St. Louis. With the famed Gateway Arch, an acclaimed zoo, lively nightlife and a variety of museums, St. Louis offered something for everyone. Vice President Joe Biden, Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and Senators Claire McCaskill a...

2/7/2017 - Addison Hartman is a lot like other 7-year-old girls. She likes playing with dolls, horses and Legos, loves climbing trees and singing and dancing. Most of all, Addison loves her dog, Radar. But the Irish Doodle is much more than the child’s pet. Radar is Addison’s service dog. Wherever Addison goes, so goes Radar, including to school at New Bloomfield Elementary School. He even sleeps next to her each night. With type 1 juvenile diabetes, Addison’s blood sugar has to be...

8/30/2017 - VFW Life member Rob Riggle hit the green with the VFW magazine staff in June during a visit to Kansas City, Mo., for the annual charity event, Big Slick Celebrity Weekend. Riggle, originally from Overland Park, Kan., posed for photos along the Oakwood Country Club Golf Course, shared his favorite Kansas City restaurants and chatted casually with magazine and country club staffers. Itching to get a couple swings in over the course of the photo shoot, Riggle is no strange...

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...

12/12/2017 - Does the topic of networking leave a sour taste in your mouth? Are you worried that I’m going to promote “schmoozing,” and handing out business cards like a snake oil salesman? If it does, you’re not alone. But don’t worry. Networking is an important part of your military to civilian transition, and if done correctly, is genuine, fun, interesting and rewarding – not at all slimy and disingenuous. Why Does Networking Matter? Maybe you’ve heard it said: It’s not what you...

8/5/2014 - The VFW is asking all VFW Posts to participate in the Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemorative Partner program. The Commemorative Partner Program is designed for federal, state and local communities, veterans' organizations and other nongovernmental organizations to assist a grateful nation in thanking and honoring our Vietnam Veterans and their families. As a Commemorative Partner, VFW Posts are encouraged to participate in the Commemoration of the Vietnam War...

7/14/2014 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — More than 12,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliaries are rolling into the Show Me State this weekend to elect new leadership and to approve resolutions that will guide the national organization’s advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill, and its veteran and military support programs across the country. Vice President Joe Biden has also accepted an invitation to address the delegates during their joint opening sessi...

7/3/2014 - This weekend, we celebrate the most important beginning in American history. A beginning that for the first time, consisted of freedoms and liberty and righteousness — a beginning inspired by a revolutionary idea thought up by a group of men who believed they should stand up against tyranny. These men unknowingly held an idea that would forever change the lives of everyone in this great nation. On this occasion, we celebrate the birth of America. Prior to Jul...

1/9/2014 - This year promises to be a momentous one for America’s veterans and its warriors. Issues affecting those in and out of uniform will be on the front burner on Capitol Hill. Two events in 2014 will no doubt put veterans and the armed forces in the national limelight: congressional elections and withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The ending of a war is always a watershed in history, and this one should be no exception. Achieving such a milestone will at...