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For four years, Persian Gulf War vet Jason Wenton couldn’t sleep in the same room with his wife, Georgette, in their home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He was confined to a wheelchair which wouldn’t fit through their bedroom door or into their master bath. That all changed last summer when Jim Rose with the Rose Family Charitable Trust ...
Two Iraq War veterans and spouses, Carlos and Jennifer Gonzalez, received much-needed assistance in paying their electric bill as well as $500 in gift cards to Walmart through the VFW’s Unmet Needs program after they were honorably discharged from the Army. “Getting help … helped us get back on track,” Jennifer said. Both C...
Statement of Tammy Barlet, Associate Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States For the Record United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs With Respect To “Pending Legislation” WASHINGTON, D.C. Chairman Tester, Ranking Member Moran, and members of the Senate Committee on ...
When Tiffany Deen gave birth to her son, Jude, on April 25, 2020, after an emergency C-section, she wasn’t allowed to hold him. Having been born without an esophagus, Jude was whisked away to a hospital two hours away. Deen’s husband, Juan, was deployed with the Navy at the time. For nine months, Tiffany lived out of a hotel in Macon, G...
During an independent review of military sexual assault in 2014, RAND Corporation reported that troops who said they had been sexually assaulted during their service were twice as likely as those who hadn’t to transition into civilian life prematurely. The report published in February is titled Effects of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment ...
At 21, Lisa Carrington Firmin was the sole female officer in a squadron of fighter pilots in New Mexico. In the best of circumstances, this would be considered challenging. Add in extreme harassment, gender discrimination, sexism and misogyny, as well as racial and ethnic discrimination, and she says that is an accurate description of the first hal...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - On behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, I would like to take the opportunity to publicly thank Dr. Richard Stone for the outstanding job he has done leading the Veterans Health Administration as Acting Under Secretary for Health. For the past three years, Dr. Stone has dedicated himself to upholding our nation’s commitme...
The journey began with an inflated unicorn floating down Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains of New York at an elevation of more than 4,000 feet. Kevin Keaveny, 51, Mathew Russell, 36, and Garrison Benz, 28, had trekked up Mt. Marcy on the southwest slope of the Adirondack Mountains, where the lake nestled between green pastures und...
VFW Post 1018 in Boston, Massachusetts, had the special honor of helping VFW Commander-in-Chief Hal Roesch receive his COVID-19 vaccine. In February and March, the Post hosted clinics for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines through a partnership with the VA Boston Healthcare System to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to eligible veterans. Th...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce the more than 1.5 million VFW and VFW Auxiliary members will be out in force during the week of Flag Day, Monday, June 14, 2021, in an effort to show their support and appreciation for BURGER KING® franchisees as part of the VFW’s fourth annual #ThankBK Appre...
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