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4/22/2025 - Brutal Battles of Vietnam is the VFW’s newest contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. Filled with accounts of amazing human endurance and bravery, this is a book that veterans, military historians and family members alike can enjoy. Get your copy today.

5/6/2015 - Terry Jacobson served in the Navy from 1963-1967 aboard the U.S.S. Taylor. It was the summer after high school when he enlisted. He was 18, unemployed and looking for purpose. Now 69 years old, Jacobson has spent his whole life serving and advocating for his fellow veterans. As a VFW Service Officer in Denver, veteran and 50-year VFW member, Terry Jacobson is a true veterans’ advocate. Jacobson has served as everything from All American Department Commander to All Americ...

4/22/2025 - Today, on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, the VFW salutes the service and sacrifice of the men and women who served during the Vietnam War. Your bravery will never be forgotten.

8/5/2025 - Ever since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a Marine. On my 18th birthday, I went into the local recruiting station and tried to enlist in the Marine Corps. They took one look at me, laughed, and sent me away. At 4’11-3/4” I was too short. Heartbroken, I forgot about military service and went on with my life, getting married at age 19 and starting a career in administration. Besides, the attitude of the time among the general population was that a woman who enlisted in ...

8/5/2025 - June/July USS Harry S. Truman: Facing Off Against ISIS 'Sending ISIS to Hell': American Volunteers Wage a Lonely War Preserving the Legacy of the Vietnam War Ambushed at Srok Dong May An Enduring Memorial Tradition: Waterloo, N.Y. Celebrates 150 Years of Memorial Day Project Ensures Final Dignity for Veterans: The Missing in America Project Behind the Ink: Visual Expressions of Memories Hockey Proves Therapeutic for Veterans April Snowball Express Gives Comfort to Gold...

8/5/2025 - Who We Are The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a nonprofit veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, guard and reserve forces. We trace our roots back to 1899 when veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) founded local organizations to secure rights and benefits for their service. Many arrived home wounded or sick. There was no medical care ...

8/5/2025 - 2020 Legislative Conference This year's 2020 Legislative Conference was held in Washington, D.C., March 1-4, 2020. 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 ...

9/3/2014 - WASHINGTON — The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is applauding a new Department of Defense decision that will enable Vietnam veterans and others to request upgrades to their less than honorable military discharges due to an extenuating factor not known at the time of their separation: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. “This decision will not be a blanket approval for every upgrade request, but it does open an avenue for those vetera...

9/25/2014 - On the evening of September 29, 1899, thirteen men — veterans who had fought on Cuba during the Spanish-American War — gathered at a tailor shop in Columbus, Ohio. They shared their accounts of what was then, the most popular war in America’s history, but further, to discuss how they could assist their fellow veterans and the dependents of their fallen comrades. These men could not have known then what would grow from such humble beginnings. The simple and self...

9/17/2014 - On September 19, we pause to remember the sacrifices of the 83,193 Americans who are still missing or unaccounted for. We remember their families – those whose pain and suffering does not subside with the passage of time. POW/MIA Recognition Day serves to remind us that the true cost of war extends far beyond the last shots being fired. WWII claimed more than 130,000 Americans taken as prisoners of war, and at the beginning of this month, continues to list 7...