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Mar 21 2023

VFW Delegation Returns to Southeast Asia

BANGKOK — Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Commander-in-Chief Tim Borland and a VFW delegation arrived in Thailand for the first leg of their three-country diplomatic and fact-finding mission to Southeast Asia, the first of its kind since 2019. “I am so proud to be a part of this very honorable mission back to Southeast Asia,” Borla...

Mar 21 2023

20 Years Later: Recalling the US Invasion of Iraq

The Iraq War began on March 19, 2003, when U.S. planes and warships based in the Persian Gulf hit targets within Iraq with a barrage of Tomahawk missiles. The next day, the ground phase of the war started when the first of some 160,000 U.S. troops entered Iraq. The invasion was swift and successful. During the first week, Marines encountered heavy ...

Mar 20 2023

The Father of Bridge Day

The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia posthumously honored a Korean War veteran on July 16, 2022, for his maiden, 876-foot parachute leap more than four decades ago. The memorial, which immortalizes the story of Army veteran Burton Ervin’s groundbreaking jump off a then-new New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virg...

Mar 17 2023

Mounted Guard Honors Veterans

Toni Johnson has been riding horses since she was a young girl. Today, she rides Napoleon, a Morgan quarter horse with the Arizona VFW Rangers Mounted Color Guard. Established in 2008 by four Vietnam War veterans from VFW Post 10254 in Tucson, Arizona, the group’s mission is fourfold. It promotes veterans, the nation’s flags, patriotism...

Mar 17 2023

'Together We Are Stronger'

In a tightknit community like that of Bennington, Vermont, whispers of heartache tend to grow into a rallying cry strong enough to summon all residents from downtown to its outskirts. When these whispers about 2-year-old Finley Scanlon spread across town in early spring of 2022, it prompted VFW Post 1332 members to lead a fundraising eff ort alongs...

Mar 16 2023

'It's Rejuvenating'

Keagan Miller’s selfless devotion to others began more than two decades ago at the Marine Corps Reserve Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. As a Marine Corps reservist with MP Co. C, 4th Law Enforcement Bn., in 2000, Miller met Vietnam veteran John Bankowitz, who served as unit commander of the Dayton Young Marines, a n...

Mar 16 2023

#EveryVeteranCounts

In hopes of better understanding the U.S. mission to support NATO allies, VFW’s Commander-in-Chief Tim Borland visited Camp Kościuszko in Poznan, Poland, on Feb. 2, kicking off a European tour of military installations and VFW Posts. Borland flew to Poland and met with the forward command element of the Army’s V Corps and support team a...

Mar 15 2023

Army Veteran Uses VFW Scholarship to Pursue a Career in Environmental Policy

When Army veteran Alyssa Parker began searching online for scholarships available to veterans, she quickly found the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship.” “I found it right away in a scholarship search,” said Parker, who served for four years and 10 months and deployed to Kuwait and Jordan in 2015 with the 463rd Medical Det...

Mar 15 2023

VFW Proudly Sponsors Bataan Memorial Death March

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Marking its 13th consecutive year of support, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce it is the presenting sponsor of the 34th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at the United States Army’s White Sands Missile Range. On April 9, 1942, approximately 75,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers surrendered after mo...

Mar 15 2023

'Food Always Brings People Together’

A VFW Post in the Garden State will host its third free food truck event on April 13. The Post’s commander said that the event aims to represent the diversity of the community. VFW Post Commander Maria Hamlin said that over the past couple of years, members of VFW Post 493 in Nutley, New Jersey, have increased community and veteran outreach. ...