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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is pleased to announce that today, TOMS King Services BURGER KING® franchisee’s Chief Operating Officer Erin Hasselgren traveled to Salem, Ohio, to present VFW Post 892 and District 6 Commander Douglas Brannon with a $75,000 donation to the VFW Unmet Needs program. The donation, ...
A VFW Post in the Peach State is making a 12-week-long combat trauma course free of charge for veterans and their families. VFW Post 5376 in Calhoun, Georgia's, Post Commander Johnathan Brown – a staff sergeant of the Georgia National Guard’s 1st Sqdn., 108th Cav, 48th Inf. BCT – said that only a handful of people have signed up f...
VFW encourages Camp Lejeune veterans to evaluate if they want to participate in recent lawsuits. The new Honoring Our PACT Act law is omnibus legislation that includes the Camp Lejeune Justice Act. The section of the law states people who drank or used contaminated water for at least 30 days between Aug. 1, 1953, and Dec. 31, 1987, at the North Car...
Members of VFW Posts 4763 and 755 in Illinois combined forces for the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to honor all lives lost during the attacks, as well as fellow service members killed defending the nation from such terrorism. On Saturday, Sept. 10, members of Posts 4763 in Chatham and 755 in Springfield, about 11 miles from ea...
WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins in with our grateful nation in celebrating the birthday of the U.S. Navy, who has protected and defended freedom both at home and around the globe for the past 247 years. On Oct. 13, 1775, a resolution of the Continental Congress established what is now the United States Navy with “a...
With an abundance of new treatments for PTSD these days, members of VFW Post 2811 in Gainesville, Florida, planted their own with help from a local gardening group this year. Though gardening therapy has cast ripples in the treatment for PTSD, Post 2811 Surgeon General Avery Owen and former Post 2811 Quartermaster Paul Deis faced a predicament when...
Reaching the ripe age of 100 comes with many stories to tell, and more than 130 friends, family, and state officials gathered at Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore on Sept. 10 to hear Victor Fuentealba tell them. A World War II veteran who served with the Army’s 83rd and 84th Infantry Divisions in the European Theatre, Fuentealba w...
The following is an Op-ed by VFW National Commander Tim Borland, published by Military Times. WASHINGTON – When a recruit joins the U.S. military, they have a lot of tasks to complete — paperwork and ID cards, physicals, boot camp, and training for their military occupational specialty — all responsibilities they accept as part of...
GEORGETOWN, Texas – Sport Clips Haircuts kicks off an annual drive today that you can participate in to raise $1.7 million by November 12, in support of the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” program. You’ll join Sport Clips clients, team members, and franchisees to raise money via text and in stores over the ...
John Wayne Troxell’s devotion to veterans did not end in retirement after a 38-year Army career culminating with the role of senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (SEAC) from 2015 to 2019. The 58-year-old followed such distinction with a familiar second act, flocking to active-duty troops, wounded warriors and v...
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