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Jacob Chapman Sr. was a 39-yearold Army vet who served withthe 48th Brigade as a medic in Bosnia. He had a wife and five children when he died suddenly on July 30, 2020, in Panama City Beach, Florida. With a 70 percent VA disability rating, Chapman was a master woodworker and owned a custom cabinet shop. He was the sole source of income for his fam...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The more than 1.5 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary is saluting the life of one of their own, retired U.S. Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.). “The senator’s story is an American story," said VFW National Commander Fritz Mihelcic, who said like young Americans everywhere, 19-year-old Bob ...
Jeremy Miller lives to shatter preconceived barriers, basking in the enlightenment waiting on the other end of them. As a former Green Beret, it comes with the territory. With an insatiable thirst for clawing at his limitations, he followed a final tour of duty in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard in 2010 by taking up ultra running The Westf...
Alex McKenna has been part of the VFW family since he was 5 years old. His enthusiasm for the VFW has only grown now that he is a member. Mostrecently, he worked to charter a new Post in Virginia in less than six months. McKenna’s grandfather, who was a WWII veteran, was a charter member of Post 7462 in Piermont, New York. His dad, a Vietnam ...
VFW Post 4217 in Warm Springs, Oregon, for the first time in its history, earned All-American Post honors for 2019-2020. For Post Commander Tamera Calhoun Coffee, who has led the Post since 2013, this honor was something she and her Post members worked hard to attain. “This was something I had been thinking about for some time,” Calhoun...
Vietnam veterans most likely have vivid memories of the Army’s UH-1H Iroquois “Huey” helicopters. The most commonly used helicopter in the Vietnam War, the Huey was used for troop insertions and extractions as well as medical evacuations off the battlefield. While “Huey” was its nickname, its true name of Iroquois was ...
WASHINGTON — What are you thankful for? It’s a question often asked around the table during the Thanksgiving feast, met with as much enthusiasm as the dinner rolls being passed around. What most everyone really wants to get to is the turkey. In modern America, Thanksgiving Thursday has become the appetizer to the main course – Bla...
After he retired from the military, veteran Dustin Brown did not want to leave the house or socialize. “I dreaded going to the store or any place with large crowds or gatherings,” he said. “And I withdrew from almost all my family and friends.” Hoping to live a more peaceful life and restore relationships, Brown entered a se...
VFW’s "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" has provided Navy veteran LaShonda Hill the opportunity to continue her post-graduate education after her military service. Sponsored by the hair care franchise Sport Clips, the Help A Hero Scholarship is now in its seventh year. Recipients receive up $5,000 through the scholarship program. Hill, a ...
WASHINGTON — In a memorandum issued Nov. 17, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III acknowledged the economic challenges impacting many service members and their families as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and outlined the steps the Department of Defense will take to address the issue. “The DOD taking significant steps to address t...
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