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WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States this week released the results of its latest nationwide survey on the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system from the veterans’ point-of-view. Now in its seventh edition, the VFW created “Our Care” in the aftermath of the nationwide crisis in access to...
KANSAS CITY, MO. – On Sept. 29, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is celebrating its 120th year as our nation’s largest and most accomplished combat veterans service organization. In 1899, in a small tailor shop in the heart of Columbus, Ohio, 13 Spanish-American War veterans allied together with a determined resolve to fight for...
Rob Wilkins has never competed in a bodybuilding competition, but his lifelong passion for the fitness regimen aligned with his 26-year Air Force career and led to an appointment on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. “I just thought it was remarkable,” said Wilkins, a Life member with the VFW Department of V...
In its second year, Uniting to Combat Hunger, a campaign dedicated to providing food-insecure families with nutritious meals, supplied more than 300,000 meals to needy families in July at the 120th VFW National Convention in Orlando, Fla. The VFW and Humana worked together with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, the Society of St. And...
The Burger King McLamore Foundation has awarded nearly $2 million through its scholarship program to veterans and their families, including the child of a veteran among this year’s recipients. Burger King Scholars has awarded $40 million in scholarships, $4 million of which was issued last year. The majority of recipients are on a four-year u...
One year to the day after a soldier was killed in action in Iraq, his hometown rallied to charter a VFW Post in his honor. Gabriel Conde, of Loveland, Colo, died April 30, 2018, due to enemy fire. He was 22. Conde’s death was the first in the community since Ryan Armagost, commander of Spc. Gabriel Conde Memorial VFW Post No. 12189 had moved ...
Statement of Carlos Fuentes, Director National Legislative 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 “Preventing Harm to Veterans: Examining VA’s Overpayments and Debt Coll...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Sept. 20, POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. remembers the more than 140,000 former American prisoners of war going back to the beginning of World War II, and the more than 82,000 missing and unaccounted-for Americans who have yet to return home from their wars. When multiplying those numb...
VFW members have long been known for their volunteer spirit. This is apparent even as early as 1946 when the VFW and its Auxiliary became two of the first charter members of the Department of Veterans Affairs Voluntary Service (VAVS). VAVS volunteers do everything from delivering books to patients to filing paperwork in VA medical facilities. In 20...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – OnSept. 18, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. joins in celebrating the 72nd birthday of the world’s most dominant air, space and cyber force, the United States Air Force. Originally organized as part of the U.S. Army in 1907, the Air Force became a separate military department on this day when a VFW Life membe...
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