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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) wishes our service members, veterans, military families, and friends a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. While most of us will spend this time with our families and friends, it’s imperative that we remember the thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast G...
Just 10 miles off the coast of Dunedin Beach, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico, exists a Circle of Heroes. It is a tranquil, peaceful place that offers comfort for veterans inclined — and prepared — to visit it. The first-of-its-kind underwater veterans dive memorial was dedicated on Aug. 5. VFW’s Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief Fritz M...
WASHINGTON – Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) hosted 60 wounded warriors, their families and caregivers, and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center staff Dec. 13 for the traditional Aleethia Foundation’s Friday Night Dinner at The Capitol Hill Club. “It is an honor to break bread, share stories, and be part of the healing proc...
This article is featured in the November/December issue ofVFW magazine, and was written by Amanda Cook, editor-in-chief of theVFW Auxiliary Magazine. The VFW Auxiliary’s Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest was established in 1979 to give high school students a platform and venue for expressing patriotism not only through their words...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – This week, on the eighth anniversary of the conclusion of the U.S. mission in Iraq, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) remembers the nearly 4,500 men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the fight against terror. More than 1.5 million soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines deployed to Iraq from March 20, 2003, to De...
For 90 years, the Military Order of the Cootie has been spreading Christmas cheer to the children of the National Home! Every year on the first weekend in December, they travel from far and wide to share the holiday spirit at the National Home. Friday evening, members of the VFW Department of Michigan District 8 organized the delivery of presents t...
With the new membership year well under way, VFW Commander-in-Chief William “Doc” Schmitz has a message for all members: “Retention, retention, retention.” With the VFW attaining more than 100 percent membership for the first time in 27 years, culminating in July at the VFW’s 120th national convention in Orlando, Fla.,...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Dec. 9, 2019) – A $1.25 million donation by Sport Clips Haircuts to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation will boost the impact of the Help A Hero Scholarship program that supports education for civilian careers. Sport Clips Founder and CEO Gordon Logan, who is a veteran and VFW Life member, presented the million-dollar-pl...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On the 78th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Veterans of Foreign Wars solemnly honors the 2,403 men and women who died in the devastating attack Dec. 7, 1941. VFW National Commander William “Doc” Schmitz, along with VFW Auxiliary National President Peggy Haake, will travel to Pearl Harbor to lay a ...
Christmas 1965 promised to be an especially lonely holiday for the 200,000 American servicemen and women deployed to South Vietnam. They found themselves in a foreign land far from their families, under strange and often very dangerous circumstances. And regardless of their job or duty location, these people had a war to fight. The cargo ships and ...
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