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Vietnam veteran Tony Blount remembers when he and his late wife, Amy, went through hard times when they were younger. The couple — both of whom were 100 percent disabled veterans — had to utilize food banks to make ends meet. When the duo had the opportunity to give back, they formed West Plains Angels out of Cheney, Washington, to help...
March 3-7 is VFW’s 2024 Washington Conference in Washington, D.C. During this time, VFW leaders converge on Capitol Hill to engage with their lawmakers on behalf of all veterans. Additionally, this conference provides an opportunity for the VFW to discharge its mid-year business to include committee meetings and a meeting of the National Coun...
Tillie Bobby and her family spent 80 years piecing together the vague details around her uncle’s death during World War II, clinging to a citation that simply stated he was killed at sea. But in 2022, while browsing the Find a Grave database online, Bobby and her husband, Roger, of Port Sanilac, Michigan, discovered a link between Tillie&rsqu...
Members of VFW Post 10380 in Green Township, Ohio, partnered with Wreaths Across America to lay 500 wreaths in a ceremony at their local Bridgetown Cemetery on Dec. 16. Led by location coordinator Bill Ostermeyer, Post 10380 welcomed more than 70 guests to their ceremony at Bridgetown Cemetery, where they laid 500 wreaths on the graves of local vet...
VFW magazine began this year with its first of many digital issues moving forward, a gradual process to transition the magazine to a digital-only publication by 2028. All VFW members with an email address on file should have received a link to the digital version of VFW magazine for January 2024. VFW currently publishes and mails six issues of VFW ...
VFW Life member Randolph Freeman, 74, lives in Maplewood, Minnesota, with his wife, Michelle. He joined the Army in 1974 and served for 24 years, with tours in Korea and Germany. He has felt the effects of various service-related conditions, including migraines, back pain and neck and shoulder injuries, for years but struggled to receive benefits. ...
WASHINGTON — On Monday, Jan. 15, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary will join the millions of Americans in honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a visionary and activist who would ultimately lay down his life for the cause of civil rights. Born on Jan. 15, 1929, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister...
For the past nine years, VFW Post 311’s emphasis on higher education has led to more than $30,000 in scholarships awarded to high school seniors with family ties to veterans in Richton Park, Illinois. What began in August 2014 with three $1,000 scholarships, the Benjamin O. Davis Post 311 Commander’s Scholarship program has since awarde...
One phone call to Joshua Kampert in 2019 may have saved his life. Kampert received the call from Iraq War veteran Justin Johnson. Johnson said that he and Kampert talked about their struggles after leaving the Marine Corps. The pair were deployed to Iraq from February to September 2005 with Charlie Co., Combat Logistics Bn. 8. “After connect...
Patrick Byrne, 40, lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, Patrick, Finnegan and Amelia. In college, he joined the ROTC before serving in the Army for nine years. Patrick was stationed in Georgia, North Carolina and Alaska and completed deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, years later, he manages...
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