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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars is now accepting entries for its annual "Return to Vietnam" trip drawing. If you received a Purple Heart for being wounded in Vietnam, you could be one of nine* lucky veterans to win this in-country tour from April 16-29, 2020. The trip will include visits to Hanoi,Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), the DMZ, ...
A Los Angeles-based dance company spent two weeks earlier this year working with veterans in Manhattan, Kan., in what one participant called “medicine for the soul.” DIAVOLO, created by Jacques Heim, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct a two-week residency at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Heim st...
While many college students were focusing on final projects, essays and tests during the spring 2019 semester, student veterans at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Va., made time to serve their community in April. For the group’s final community service project of the school year, Mason Veteran Patriots — the Student Veterans o...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is mourning the loss of Past Commander-in-Chief John A. Biedrzycki, who passed away yesterday, August 29, 2019. John A. Biedrzycki was elected national commander of the VFW on July 22, 2015, at the organization’s 116th national convention, held in Pittsburgh, Pa. John served in...
WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars is very concerned that the dependent children of U.S. service members and government employees stationed overseas, and who are also legal permanent residents of the U.S., may face difficulty returning to the United States. The concern arose from an update published Wednesday by the U.S. Citizenship an...
For 120 years, the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been known for its service to veterans. For the past 100 of those years, the oldest overseas war veterans organization has had an office in Washington, D.C., devoted to just that — service. Under Commander-in-Chief F. Warner Karling at VFW’s 1919 encampment (forerunner to today’s Nat...
Ohio native, Joshua Parker, has spent his entire career in the Air National Guard. Now 28-years-old, he is stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico and working as a firefighter. He gives a lot of himself, both in service to others and in his master’s program. Parker is attending the University of Puerto Rico concentrating on an all-Spanish social w...
At 21-years-old, veteran Lexy Llewellyn has plenty of years to achieve her dreams. But this Maryland resident isn’t wasting any time to begin her career in criminology. With the help of the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” the road to graduation is a bit easier. Before setting sights on school, Lexy felt a strong ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Together with longtime supporter Sport Clips Haircuts, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce its “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” program has surpassed awarding $6.4 million in scholarships to more than 1,450 military and student veterans. The latest fall semester award of nearly $76...
Veteran Adam Lawrence sees a bridge between his devotion to the military and his love of mathematics and computer science. This Valencia, Calif., native joined the Army directly out of high school without giving it a second thought. He had watched both his father and grandfather devote their lives to the military so it felt natural to him, even tho...
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