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After graduating high school in 1966, Larry Jordan and his best friend Paul Doyon decided to enlist and join the Marine Corps. Two years later, Jordan landed in Danang, South Vietnam. During a 13-month tour, Jordan conducted patrols, night ambushes, road sweep security and perimeter security. On January 29, 1969, he returned home to Ipswich, Massac...
On October 4, storms darkened the skies over Fairburn, Georgia, but it was a Monday. So, despite poor conditions, members from VFW Post 6449 did what they always do — they packed up food to deliver to veteran families in need throughout the area. “Sleet, rain or snow — we will be at your door,” said one Post member. Each Mo...
WASHINGTON — On a bright, sunny December day in 2011, in a hangar on Pope Field, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, then-President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of service members, military families, VIPs and media packed into the space." Tomorrow, the colors of United States Forces Iraq, the colors you fought under, will be formally cased in a cer...
Samantha Johnson* grew up in a family of five children. Four of them joined the military. “My older brother is in the Army, my younger sister is a senior at West Point, and my younger brother is in the New York Army National Guard,” she said. “I was a combat medic in the New York Army National Guard.” Johnson joined the mili...
Like his father, veteran Barry Reaves, 45, joined the Army because he wanted to serve his country. Throughout his 24 years of service, he was deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, and Germany. The Dorchester, Massachusetts, native and father of two, Isabella, 9, and Benjamin, 12, retired as a Sergeant First Class. Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stre...
“I had a very rough transition out of the Army,” said veteran Brandon White. “It wasn’t until I returned to school that I got back on my feet.” White, 34, left the military in 2012. Today, he lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his “amazing and supportive” wife Jessica and their four children Aubrey, Da...
When James Reese Beaty was honorably discharged from the Army in December 1991, the next chapter of his life would carry the need to continue serving. The upstate South Carolina native returned home and began working for the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office as a detention officer. There, in the spring of 1998, he discovered how hecould help. ...
Statement of Emily Devito, Associate 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 Economic Opportunity With Respect To “Removing Barriers to Veteran Homeownership” Washington, D.C. Chairma...
WASHINGTON — On this day 80 years ago, the sleeping giant was violently awakened. America in 1941 was working on itself. Following the end of the Great Depression in 1939, Americans were just beginning their economic recovery and had returned to their isolationist stance on foreign affairs. Even though they were upset with the carnage ravishi...
In the small town of Clinton, Maryland, about 20 miles south of the nation’s capital, Friday afternoons set the stage for what’s become a local tradition. Amidst social and economic hardships brought on by the global pandemic in 2020, VFW Post 9376 in Clinton presented its community with an alternative to social gatherings by hosting dr...
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