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Resting against a foothill some 7,000 feet above sea level on a flat-topped mesa encased by mountains, a small veterans’ community lives off-grid in camaraderienear Carson, New Mexico. Founded in 2017 by Ryan Timmermans, the small, 50-acre desert community sprouted near Carson, about 25 miles west of Taos, New Mexico, to provide veterans with...
For the past 12 years, family after family has asked, “Why are they so kind?” The question refers to the community welcome and supportexperienced by combat-wounded veterans and their families during a week spent at a cabin in Custer, South Dakota. The cabin experience, offered by the 501(c)3 non-profit called Operation Black Hills Cabin...
A battle-worn Marine of 30 years, Sgt. Maj. Lance Nutt cannot tell the story without tearing up. He and members of his Sheep Dog Impact Assistance team, a group of war veterans and retired police, fire and emergency response officers, were helping clean up the devastation of a tornado that ripped through Wynne, Arkansas, in March. The EF3 twister w...
Jonathan Pivaral, 27, grew up between the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, and Antigua, Guatemala. Right after high school, Pivaral enlisted in the Army National Guard, seeing it as a way forward. “I joined at 17 with the goal to begin a career and figure out how to get to where I wanted to be,” he said. Pivaral took advantage of his milit...
When the Honoring Our PACT Act was signed into law a year ago this month, VFW Post 9133 Commander Wendy Silvera thought to herself that her Post needed to do its part to help those in her community affected by the new law. “Everyone witnessed what the VFW had done to make sure that the PACT Act was passed,” said Silvera, a retired Marin...
“I wanted to make my God, myself, my mother and my grandmother proud,” veteran Claudia Lane said. “Joining the Army was a great way to make that happen.” Lane, 38, enlisted in 2005 and served for eight years. Throughout her career, she was stationed in Washington and Texas and was deployed to Iraq. “Deployment was real...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce 162 service members and veterans were selectedas recipients of the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” for the upcoming 2023 fall semester. The student veterans will collectively receive nearly $750,000 in post-secondary scholarships to help t...
WASHINGTON –The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Student Veterans of America (SVA) are now accepting applications from student veterans interested in participating in the upcoming 2023-2024 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship program. Now in its 10th year, the fellowship will bring select student veterans — who must be VFW members –&...
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins with our grateful nation in celebrating the birthday of the United States Coast Guard, which has saved countless lives and protected U.S. interests at ports, inland waterways, coastlines and international waters for the past 233 years. On Aug. 4, 1790, President Washington signed the Tarif...
PHOENIX — Duane Sarmiento of Gibbstown, New Jersey, was elected today as the new national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), a congressionally chartered veterans service organization comprised of approximately 1 million eligible combat veterans and military service members from all six branches of the armed forces. “Today,...
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