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Homeless veterans in Missouri found helping hands in VFW and Auxiliary members. During the Department of Missouri’s Council of Administration community service event at Branson’s Chateau on the Lake in September, members filled 172 “Comfort Rucks” for homeless vets. Post and Auxiliary members, as well as corporate sponsors a...
Joe W. Haralson is the longest-serving Texas Ranger, but the significance of that accolade doesn’t resonate with the Vietnam War veteran. “All that means is I was born before the rest of them,” said Haralson, a member of VFW Post 8248 in La Marque, Texas. Haralson joined the Rangers in June 1981 after a decade-long stint with the ...
Medicare annual enrollment opened in October and will close on Dec. 7. Determining which Medicare plan is the best is an important decision for individuals nearing age 65 or those who qualify due to a disability. According to Ed Sandrick, director of Humana Veterans Channel, even veterans receiving benefits through the VA might be interested in add...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) wishes all veterans, service members, military families, and our advocates a happy Thanksgiving holiday. “Thanksgiving is a time of reflection – a time for us to give thanks to the men and women who serve, and have served, this great nation honorably,” said VFW National Commander William “D...
Among many of the VFW’s priorities, advocating for the return of America’s war dead from foreign lands was apparent even in the early days of the 120-year-old veterans’ organization. In the spring of 1929, members of the Polar Bear Association, a group of veterans of the 339th Infantry Regiment, asked VFW Commander-in-Chief Eugene...
Members of VFW Post 1822 in Plymouth, Mass., were well represented during a Sept. 1 ceremony for a new ship’s bell for the Mayflower II. Post members donated their personal military service medals and other items that were melted down and cast into the ship’s new bell. The bell was cast for a ship that was built almost seven decades ago...
December brings a slew of decorations, but a wreath adorning the tombstone of a veteran tops the list for hordes of volunteers annually. While the month’s decorations speak the holiday language, National Wreaths Across America Day dictates an all too familiar message for veterans everywhere — Remember, Honor, Teach. For Bill Rogers, a L...
A bill introduced to the House could provide veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars who were exposed to burn pits the same VA medical care as Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange. The VFW-supported Jennifer Kepner Healthcare for Open-Air Burn-Pit Exposure (HOPE) Act, H.R. 4137, was introduced to the House by Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) in ...
Statement of Vincent “B.J.” Lawrence Executive Director, Washington Office Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security With Respect To The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Bringing Our Nation’s Heroes Home WAS...
Fighting a fanatical, dug-in enemy in the maze-like infrastructure of his own city has often proved disastrous to armies throughout the history of warfare. But the Battle of Fallujah in November 2004 during the Iraq War could be considered a textbook urban assault by U.S. Marines and soldiers. Lessons learned over 18 months of combat in Iraq crysta...
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