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Sep 24 2024

‘Veterans Deserve to Be Honored’

Clinton, Utah, veteran and VFW Life member Chuck Love is #StillServing through leadership positions at the Corporal Fred J. Grant Post 1481 in nearby Ogden. As the Post’s junior vice commander and honor guard captain, Love works as a liaison between families seeking military honors for loved ones at their funerals and the military organizatio...

Sep 24 2024

Revisiting a VFW Member's Brush With 'the Greatest'

When Henry Hooper II first sat down with VFW magazine to speak about his brief boxing career in 2022, he had no idea it would lead, in a couple of years, to an Emmy Award and later a Presidential Lifetime Achievement nomination. An acting member of VFW’s National Council of Administration at the time, Hooper had shared this little-known perio...

Sep 23 2024

Advocating for Veterans’ Health Care

Iraq War veteran Sam Wybenga is #StillServing by helping veterans access affordable medical care with assistance from the VFW. Wybenga was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2022. As a Gold Legacy Life member of VFW Post 1 in Denver, Colorado, he advocates for veterans by sharing his experience navigating the medical claims and health care landscape. ...

Sep 23 2024

‘I Am Part of Something Bigger Than Myself’

Marine Corps veteran Allison Krezman, 25, resides in Salem, Massachusetts, with her three cats: Gomez, Fester and Lulu. As a VFW Claims Consultant, she helps veterans apply for VA disability and other benefits. “I honestly feel so grateful and fulfilled that I get to help my people,” Krezman said. “Meeting veterans from all eras t...

Sep 23 2024

Centenarian

VFW Post 6633 members in Darby, Pennsylvania, traveled to the home of fellow Life member and World War II veteran Peter Bandy to celebrate his centennial birthday in August. Bandy, a staff sergeant who served with the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force in the European Theatre during WWII, flew 35 missions as a waist gunner, six of...

Sep 19 2024

VFW Applauds Congress Passing Emergency Appropriations for VA

WASHINGTON — I am pleased to hear the news, along with the nearly 7 million other veterans who rely on VA benefits, to include disability compensation and even the GI Bill, that veterans can have peace of mind our benefits will be delivered on time October 1. Today, the Senate passed the House-introduced emergency appropriations bill to cover...

Sep 19 2024

Until They All Return Home

WASHINGTON – On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) emphasizes the gravity of honoring and remembering the more than 140,000 former American prisoners of war and the more than 81,500 service members who remain missing and unaccounted for. It is the duty of every American to remember the men and women whose sac...

Sep 18 2024

'We Deserve to Have Our Family Home'

Families across the country are hopeful that one day the remains of their loved ones who went missing in war will be returned home. This includes the family of three sailors who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Karen Grantham, of Richmond, Missouri, attended a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) family update on March 23 in Kansas ...

Sep 18 2024

Fresh Produce

For several years, VFW Post 1836 members had debated running a farmer’s market at their Post in Lufkin, Texas, but it never seemed to line up properly until last April. The opportunity finally presented itself when a local couple with experience managing a farmer’s market elsewhere moved to Lufkin looking for a new place to host their o...

Sep 18 2024

Examining VA’s Challenges with Ensuring Quality Contracted Disability Compensation Examinations

Statement of Ryan M. Gallucci, Executive Director Washington Office Veterans of Foreign Wars to the United States Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs With Respect To “Examining VA’s Challenges with Ensuring Quality Co...