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A Colorado mountaintop where the Army’s 10th Mountain Division trained during World War II was classified as a national monument last October after a declaration by President Joe Biden. The more than 53,800-acre area will be maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service agency. According to a press release from the B...
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola was in Afghanistan less than two weeks when he died. The 20-year-old Californian was among the 13 Americans killed in a suicide bombing on Aug. 26, 2021, while trying to evacuate people from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. Assigned to 2nd Bn., 1st Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Marine Expeditionar...
During his second deployment to Iraq with the 1st Marine Regiment Personal Security Detachment in 2008, Seth Allard grew conscious of the alarming behavior around him. Allard had deployed earlier in 2005 with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment to Al Anbar province for operations Steel Curtain and Iron Hammer, but the behavioral patterns among his f...
Having completed his first marathonin 2015 at 78 years old, Bob Gravley had an idea. A Korean War veteran, Gravley crossed the finish line of the OBX Towne Bank Marathon that day in Outer Banks, North Carolina, with a notion of hosting a marathon back home in Salem, Missouri. Salem, in all its rural splendor, is exactly 26.7 miles south of Rolla, M...
Before Bancroft Capital CEO and founder Cauldon Quinn was nominated as one of the most influential veterans in business by the Philadelphia Business Journal in 2022, the Navy veteran’s life was spared by his conscience. The origins of Bancroft Capital date back to two decades before — Jan. 9, 2002 — when Quinn, then a member of Ta...
When Hurricane Ian ravaged parts of Florida in late September, VFW’s Department of Florida relied on its Emergency Response and Recovery team to channel adequate disaster relief in a hurry. VFW member Don Pearsall formed the team in 2018 after Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, ripped through the Caribbean and parts of Florida. Even befor...
VFW has done it again. The organization’s National Veterans Service and its network of veterans service officers around the world have helped veterans recover a collective total of more than $11.2 billion last year — the most amount of money ever. For more than 120 years, VFW’s National Veterans Service has served veterans and the...
More than 374,000 veterans who received one of VA’s new airborne toxic exposure screenings reported exposure to toxins during their military service, according to a Dec. 29, 2022, VA statement. In almost 40 percent of those screenings, veterans said they might have been exposed to harmful airborne substances. As of Aug. 15, 2022, there were 9...
Originally from Wahpeton, North Dakota, Todd Schroeder lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife, Nicola, and six children: Alexis, Ayden, Kaden, Tiana, Chelsee and Logan. As a teenager, Schroeder contemplated his future. Feeling like his options were limited, he recalled past discussions with his father. “He often talked fondly of his time in ...
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, The Washington Post Editorial Board suggested America balance its budget on the backs of veterans. The VFW has heard these tired arguments before but was shocked to see them endorsed by an institution like the Washington Post. According to their public bios, none of the 10 members of The Washington Post Editorial Board...
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