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Apr 08 2019

'The Right and Honorable Thing to Do'

A trifecta of bells that have been on U.S. soil for more than a century were returned to the Philippines last year — a move the VFW supported — despite opposition from some veterans. The bells’ odyssey began Sept. 28, 1901, during the Philippine-American War, when Filipino villagers attacked U.S. troops in Balangiga in the province of Eastern Samar, killing 48 of the 74 members of C Co., 9th Inf. Regt. A seven-day campaign occurred in the aftermath, as U.S. troops retal...

Apr 03 2019

Montagnards Find Home in North Carolina

Blic Dacat labors daily clearing the dense Carolina pines and constructing fences from the wood he gets. He plants crops, burns brush and tends to the goats. Some might mistake Dacat’s abode for an abandoned farmhouse. For that matter, at first sight, Dacat appears to have no home at all — his clothes are stained and frayed, and his hands are dirty with soil and marred by scrapes from a hard day’s work. Given where Dacat began, though, the North Carolina wilderness is a...

Apr 03 2019

AI Technology Improving Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is based on constant escalation of the technological stakes. Every new advancement in defensive technology seems to be met and surpassed by criminals and their latest developments. Then the cycle goes around again. This proverbial arms race has kept the question of personal data security relevant for years, even as the systems used to store, transfer and process data have reached new levels of sophistication. It’s never wise to assume that any data is breac...

Apr 01 2019

A Marine Makes a 'Positive Impact' for Vets and Families

For Bob Smith, a monetary victory he earns for a veteran filing a VA claim is not as important as what the approved claim does for the claimant and his or her family. For example, one of his most meaningful victories was for a surviving spouse. Smith, a VFW-accredited service officer in Jerome, Idaho, said the spouse was seeking assistance with medications. “Her husband had passed away about 15 years earlier, and I had asked her if her husband was ever a POW, to which sh...

Mar 06 2019

VFW Concerned With VA MISSION Act Implementation

WASHINGTON – This morning, during testimony before a joint hearing of the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. called for full congressional oversight over the implementation of the VA MISSION Act of 2018. The organization made clear its dissatisfaction with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ implementation thus far, citing arbitrary and misguided decision-making. With more than 80 percent of VFW members relying on VA ...