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When members of VFW Post 6278 in Lawson, Missouri, moved into their new building in 2019, they began plotting for a mural that would honor their respective services. Heralding from all five services and spanning several wars, Post members in this town of less than 2,500 people, about 34 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri, found their window o...
The “American Dream” comes without instructions, symmetry or a scientific formula to abide by in living it out to the fullest. Formless in nature, it lives in the hearts and minds of its dreamers. From sacrifices waged and torture endured to protect his country, Haisam “Sam” Farran’s latest memoir, The Tightening Dark,...
Eugenia “Gene” Thornton is #StillServing as a Life member of VFW Post 6483 in Milford, Delaware, along with Dolly, her certified therapy dog. Thornton served in the U.S. Army for 27 years. She was deployed to Korea and Germany and during Desert Storm. After retirement, she received a 90 percent disability rating and continues to deal wi...
WASHINGTON – It still hurts. The pain from the tremendous loss of life two decades ago comes rushing back with every glimpse of those images on the front covers of newspapers, on our television screens and in our newsfeeds. It’s like an agonizing wound once thought healed that is reopened time and time again. For those of us who remembe...
Micah Jones is #StillServing by protecting and supporting his local community with the help of his dog Summer, also a heroic veteran. A K9 handler in the Air Force for more than two decades, Jones served all over the world, including in Panama, Iraq, and Afghanistan, cherishing the experience. “Being a K9 handler and trainer is my passion in ...
“The VFW is as relevant as ever. This is why I’m proud to say ‘I am the VFW,’” stated Craig DeOld, who is #StillServing a and Post Commander of Boston Police VFW Post 1018 in Massachusetts. “I am the VFW because I keep my Post and veterans out front!” DeOld completed nearly 20 years of service in the U.S. A...
Rosemary Connolly is #StillServing as a member of VFW Post 755 in Springfield, Illinois, and as a therapy dog handler. Connolly served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years and was deployed to Saudi Arabia with the Airborne Warning and Control Squadron, known as AWACS, in support of ELF One operations. After her retirement from the military in 1995, s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Veterans of Foreign Wars has joined together with four other veterans service organizations to launch the 9/11 Memorial Golf Fund to help commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, and honor those who have served in the wake. The goal is to raise needed funds in support of eac...
WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and Student Veterans of America (SVA) are now accepting applications from student veterans who are interested in participating in the upcoming 2022 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship program. The fellowship, now in its eighth year, will bring select student veterans –– who...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On this day 76 years ago, a delegation from the Empire of Japan boarded the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the Japanese Instrument of Surrender and officially end World War II. The day would become known as Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day, and it is what the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) commemora...
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