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Kansas City, Mo.- As America’s largest organization of combat veterans, the health and well-being of our members, partners, associates and communities is our top priority. For this reason and as our civic responsibility, we have implemented a number of measures to help combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We have drastically e...
Today, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) recognizes U.S. Navy Commodore Grace Murray Hopper. Hopper, known to many as “Amazing Grace,” joined the U.S. Naval Reserves in 1943 during World War II. She was assigned to the Bureau of Ordinance Computation Project. This is where she became only the third programmer of the world’s fir...
While VFW values the service of all veterans, March is a time to pay tribute to the women who have served and are serving our country. Women like Sharon Ann Lane, who became the only U.S. military woman killed in action in Vietnam, or Jamie Fallon, a member of VFW Post 1503 in Woodbridge, Va., who was killed at the Pentagon in the Sept. 11, 2001, ...
For the first time in the five decades since returning to the U.S. from Vietnam, the Miller brothers found themselves together in Washington, D.C. In front of hundreds of spectators, swallowed by cheers and bottled-up emotion, the five brothers strolled side-by-side, inspecting the names of more than 58,000 fallen Americans etched along the two acr...
President of VFW Auxiliary 8545 Cheryl Brown had always wanted to find a way to thank her brother, Lynn Thomas Brown, for his service in Vietnam. So when she got a 10-week-old German Shepherd puppy last year, she knew what she had to do. Thanks to the generosity of her neighbors in the countryside of Smithfield, Va., Brown was able to purchase th...
Statement of Michael S. Figlioli, Deputy Director National Veterans Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Veterans’ Affairs United States House of Representatives With Respect To “Stopping Harm and Implementing Enhanced Lead-timeFor Debts for Veterans A...
Statement of Patrick Murray, Deputy Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity With Respect To "Pending Legislation" WASHINGTON, D.C. Chairman Levin, Ranking Member Bilirakis, and members ...
A nonprofit organization’s survey conducted last year shows families living in military housing built by private developers are reporting unsafe conditions at many housing installations across the country. The Military Family Advisor Network talked to 14,558 individuals who live or have lived within the past three years in privatized ho...
Today, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) recognizes Army Nurse Corps 2nd Lt. Elsie S. Ott. Ott, a native of Smithtown, New York, attended Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing after completing high school. After a short stint in nursing at area hospitals, Ott joined the Army Nurse Corps in September 1941. Ott was commissioned to second lieutenan...
President Donald Trump’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 on Dec. 20 terminated the long-standing “widow’s tax” of surviving spouses of troops. The law (P.L. 116-92) allows surviving spouses of military troops who died during active-duty service or retirees who died from a service-connected cause to ...
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