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The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia posthumously honored a Korean War veteran on July 16, 2022, for his maiden, 876-foot parachute leap more than four decades ago. The memorial, which immortalizes the story of Army veteran Burton Ervin’s groundbreaking jump off a then-new New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virg...
Toni Johnson has been riding horses since she was a young girl. Today, she rides Napoleon, a Morgan quarter horse with the Arizona VFW Rangers Mounted Color Guard. Established in 2008 by four Vietnam War veterans from VFW Post 10254 in Tucson, Arizona, the group’s mission is fourfold. It promotes veterans, the nation’s flags, patriotism...
In a tightknit community like that of Bennington, Vermont, whispers of heartache tend to grow into a rallying cry strong enough to summon all residents from downtown to its outskirts. When these whispers about 2-year-old Finley Scanlon spread across town in early spring of 2022, it prompted VFW Post 1332 members to lead a fundraising eff ort alongs...
Keagan Miller’s selfless devotion to others began more than two decades ago at the Marine Corps Reserve Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. As a Marine Corps reservist with MP Co. C, 4th Law Enforcement Bn., in 2000, Miller met Vietnam veteran John Bankowitz, who served as unit commander of the Dayton Young Marines, a n...
In hopes of better understanding the U.S. mission to support NATO allies, VFW’s Commander-in-Chief Tim Borland visited Camp Kościuszko in Poznan, Poland, on Feb. 2, kicking off a European tour of military installations and VFW Posts. Borland flew to Poland and met with the forward command element of the Army’s V Corps and support team a...
When Army veteran Alyssa Parker began searching online for scholarships available to veterans, she quickly found the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship.” “I found it right away in a scholarship search,” said Parker, who served for four years and 10 months and deployed to Kuwait and Jordan in 2015 with the 463rd Medical Det...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Marking its 13th consecutive year of support, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce it is the presenting sponsor of the 34th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at the United States Army’s White Sands Missile Range. On April 9, 1942, approximately 75,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers surrendered after mo...
A VFW Post in the Garden State will host its third free food truck event on April 13. The Post’s commander said that the event aims to represent the diversity of the community. VFW Post Commander Maria Hamlin said that over the past couple of years, members of VFW Post 493 in Nutley, New Jersey, have increased community and veteran outreach. ...
Last month, VFW Post 8904 in Center, Texas, commemorated the 266 Americans who died when the USS Maine exploded in the Havana, Cuba, harbor on Feb. 15, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. According to Post 8904 Quartermaster Larry Hume, the USS Maine remembrance ceremony is just one of more than 25 events the Post schedules throughout the year t...
Every Friday, VFW Post 6461 members in Fountain, Colorado, host a dinner on behalf of a cause or simply to come together in camaraderie. On Feb. 10, however, the dinner was a rallying call for an Air Force veteran and Fountain Police officer on life support. Post 6461 was filled to the brim with hundreds of people supporting Julian Becerra, 35, who...
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