Despite retiring from the Navy in 2021, Steven Michaels remains dedicated to helping others. A life member of VFW Post 2135 in Peoria, Arizona, Michaels continues to serve his community and fellow veterans through volunteer work that spans from honoring local Eagle Scouts to helping allies who once served alongside U.S. forces overseas. “I’m not a person who looks for personal accolades,” Michaels told his local newspaper, the Sun City West Independent in Sun City, Arizo...
This summer, beginning on Thursday, June 25, VFW Post 6418 in St. Albans, West Virginia, will be partaking in an opportunity that Post members and officers have been excited about for a long time: Hosting the mobile Vietnam War memorial “The Moving Wall.” With a “strong desire through his past experiences,” Post Commander Gerald “Jerry” Mollohan, retired Marine and Vietnam veteran, spearheaded the initiative. After holding a vote at a Post meeting, it was confirmed that ...
Jane Smith* served for four years in the military. She began attending college while she was still enlisted to get her degree quicker and is now enrolled at California State University, Northridge. Smith’s life changed after she discovered the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” during a Google search for scholarships for veterans. She thanks everyone who made this opportunity possible. “Living in an inflated economy isn’t easy, and doing laps in the revolving do...
For more than a decade, Wayne Moore drove to work on Route 28 every day unaware he was driving right past Rose Hill Cemetery, a historic Black cemetery tucked away in an industrial part of Manassas, Virginia. But the worst part, he says now, was that the cemetery had fallen into disrepair, and the veterans laid to rest there were all but forgotten. Moore, 77, of Bristow, is the commander of VFW Post 7589 in Manassas. He said he was shocked when he learned about the cemet...
On Dec. 31, WWII veteran and VFW Post 609 member Bernard Long celebrated another year past his centennial birthday with an outpouring of love and recognition from fellow Post 609 members and individuals across the country who were excited to see him turn 108. According to a newspaper article by Jeanne Theismann for the Alexandria Gazette Packet, Post 609 Commander Jerry Krueger aimed to have 108 birthday cards mailed to Long. The goal was smashed, with the centenarian ha...
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