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Lt. Cmdr. Khalifah Glover is #StillServing by caring for COVID-19 patients and training others to provide medical assistance. She joined the U.S. Navy Reserves in 2011 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014-2015 as a critical care combat nurse working at a NATO hospital. She believes it prepared her to fight the virus. “When the pandemic hit...
“I am the VFW because I serve and I continue to serve,” said Makissa Lewis, a VFW Life member from south Florida who is #StillServing as founder and CEO of My Seester, Inc. “The VFW is a kaleidoscope of those who served in the Armed Forces. This is why I’m proud to say 'I am the VFW.’” Lewis served in the U.S. Ar...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to celebrate our nation’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander service members and veterans throughout the month of May – Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The month’s designation encompasses more than 50 ethnic ...
Nick Lopez served in the U.S. Marine Corps for eight years. He’s now living in Missouri and #StillServing as youth programs and community service coordinator at VFW National Headquarters and director of the Kansas City Veterans Writing Team (KCVWT). KCVWT holds biannual writing workshops and monthly critique groups for veterans and their fami...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has announced thewinnersof the 2021 NationalPublications Contest. Covering the 2020 calendar year, this year’s PublicationsContestgarnered 56 entries, surpassing last year’s 39 submissions. Entries for thecontestderived from 35 Posts/Districts and 10 Departments. There were fo...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has announced that the coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible to hold its 122nd VFW National Convention at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, July 31-August 5, 2021, as originally planned. “While the VFW is disappointed that our national convention will not ...
Statement of Patrick Murray, Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before the United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs With Respect To Pending Legislation Washington, D.C. Chairman Tester, Ranking Member Moran, and members of the committee, on behalf of the men and women of the Veter...
Rocio Villanueva is #StillServing as a member of VFW Post 1513 in Escondido, California. She served in the U.S. Army for eight years, including a deployment to Iraq, and credits the VFW with helping her find what she was missing after returning home. “Transitioning from the military was really difficult for me. I felt like I had no purpose in...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) proudly announced today it has joined forces with Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) through a memorandum of understanding focused on increasing veterans’ access to a combined health and wellness network, while offering camaraderie and support from fellow service members, veterans ...
When former VFW Post 2146 Commander Bob Akins of Idaho Falls, Idaho, created the Veterans’ Appreciation Hockey Game in 2006, the motive was personal. As a Canadian native, Akins joined the U.S. Air Force in 1963 and served at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam from July 1966 to July 1967 with the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing Squadron. After returning...
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