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WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary are proud to join a grateful nation in commemorating National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29, and celebrate the millions Vietnam era veterans on the fifth anniversary of the holiday. In 2017, March 29 was officially designated National Vietnam War Veterans Day as a way for ...
Statement of Tammy Barlet, Deputy Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before The United States House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs With Respect To “Pending Legislation” Washington, D.C. Chair Luria, Rank...
While dry-docked aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) during the initial shutdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Miranda Williams came across an interesting Facebook post. Williams, who spent most of the pandemic in deployments to the Indo-Pacific region with the Navy’s “Air Wing of the Future,” C...
When Vietnam War veteran John Sekletar set out to honor those who fought for freedom and country, he wanted to do so by fusing his passion for art and military history. An Amherst, Ohio, native in tune with the town’s art scene, he created the Amherst Veterans Mural Association Committee in 2010 to fund murals created by local artists wanting...
Raquel Roybal always knew she would join the military when she was of age. Her father had served in the Army Air Corps during WWII and later in the New Mexico Army National Guard. Roybal’s grandfather also served in the Army. Since Army recruiters were all that Roybal saw at her high school, it seemed like a natural fit. “When I told m...
Members of VFW Post 2269 in Wixom, Michigan, noticed a decline in Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen participation in recent years. That changed in 2021 when they teamed up with MemorialBracelets.com, also located in Wixom. The company ran local Facebook ads directing students and parents to the scholarship pages on Post 2269’s websit...
When a new Orange Heart Memorial sprouted on the fertile grounds of the Springfield Memorial Gardens in Tennessee last year, the 532 names inscribed on the bronze cenotaphs humbled Ken Gamble. Each name, that of a Vietnam War veteran, presented Gamble, a Vietnam War veteran himself, with another reason to continue his mission to honor those who fig...
Iraq War veteran Trisha McCulloch said she struggled with pelvic health issues through most of her seven-year Army career and beyond. But at the time, she didn’t know what was wrong. McCulloch said that during her first year of service, she suffered military sexual trauma, or MST, after being sexually assaulted. McCulloch said that gradually,...
“How am I going to pay for this? Is it even worth it? Will I have time? How will I find work when I’m done?” Those questions and more flooded Corey Phillips’ mind as he contemplated going to college after service. Today, Phillips, 31, and his wife Sarah live in Saltville, Virginia, with their four children, one “angry&...
Over the last five years, VFW Post 3769 members in Pikeville, Kentucky, have weekly basked in the energetic and affable company of canines. Dubbed “Veteran Dog Days at the Pound,” most veterans from Post 3769 took up the weekly tradition after Quartermaster Darian Hylton realized the power of canines in holistically helping veterans str...
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