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May 30 2024

‘We Keep This Sacred Promise Alive’

The VFW became the first veterans service organization to distribute poppies as a tribute to fallen World War I veterans. Since 1922, the VFW has conducted poppy drives, making the red flower of remembrance the official flower of the VFW. Just two years later, on May 20, 1924, the VFW was granted trademark rights for the name Buddy Poppy under the ...

May 24 2024

VFW Remembers Our Fallen

WASHINGTON — On Memorial Day, May 27, in quiet services across the country, the more than 1.4 million members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary will come together to remember the men and women who lost their lives in military service. As we gather and observe this Memorial Day, we carry on a tradition originally called D...

May 20 2024

Ace Hardware Honors Fallen Heroes with 1 Million American Flags Donation

Please see the following release from Ace Hardware. OAK BROOK, Ill. – Ace Hardware is collaborating with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) once again this year to honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country by giving away 1 million American flags nationwide on Saturday, May 25. Consumers who visit a particip...

May 17 2024

VFW Celebrates Armed Forces Day

WASHINGTON — May 18 is Armed Forces Day, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins a grateful nation in paying tribute to the soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen, guardians, and Coast Guardsmen who are defending freedom both here at home, and around the globe. According to the Department of Defense website, on Aug. 31, 1949, Secretary of De...

May 17 2024

San Benito Babe Ruth Bambinos take on VFW Post 9242

At Babe Ruth Field in Hollister California’s Veterans Park, the crowd’s excitement was palpable as two San Benito Bambino teams came together on April 27 in the third game of their season to play the Warriors, composed of the members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9242. As the loudspeakers blasted her entrance music, Joan Jett&rsq...

May 17 2024

WWII Vet Honored

In a special ceremony on April 20 at Post 1333 in Neptune, New Jersey, World War II veteran Stanley Dubroff, 97, was awarded this year’s Neptune Township/VFW Hometown Heroes Award. Nominated by Post 1333, where he serves as the oldest living member, Dubroff was selected by the Neptune Township Veterans Committee as its annual Hometown Hero fo...

May 16 2024

VFW Magazine Wants to Hear From You

The VFW National Home’s centennial year is 2025. To commemorate this VFW treasure, which has provided much-needed assistance to families – and continues this today – VFW Magazine plans to feature the Home in its January 2025 issue. This inside look at the VFW National Home, including interviews with employees who have worked there...

May 16 2024

VFW Chief Asks Congress to ‘Fight for Those Who Served’

VFW Commander-in-Chief Duane Sarmiento addressed a joint hearing of the House and Senate VA committees on March 6 during the 2024 VFW Washington Conference. Sarmiento began his testimony by thanking members of Congress for passing the Honoring Our PACT Act (P.L. 117-168) in 2022. Sarmiento noted that the law is the “most comprehensive toxic e...

May 16 2024

Serving the Underserved

VFW Post 3641 members in Pueblo, Colorado, hosted nine veterans during their fifth annual Homeless Veterans Fair on May 3. With tents scattered around the Post’s outdoor area, low income and homeless veterans in attendance were treated to several services provided by Post 3641’s members and volunteers as part of their initiative to mind...

May 16 2024

Matching Veterans and Rescue Dogs

A Vermont VFW Post Auxiliary in April hosted a successful bingo fundraiser to support a service dog training program that helps bring together service dogs with military veterans and first responders. More than 100 bingo players participated in the event, which featured a 50/50 raffle and additional prizes, at VFW Post 1034 Auxiliary in Brattleboro...