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Nov 19 2019

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Bringing Our Nation’s Heroes Home

Statement of Vincent “B.J.” Lawrence Executive Director, Washington Office Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security With Respect To The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Bringing Our Nation’s Heroes Home WASHINGTON, D.C. Chairman Lynch, Ranking Member Hice, and members of the subcommittee, on behalf of the men and women of the Veterans of Foreig...

Nov 19 2019

Fallujah: Battle for Iraq’s ‘City of Mosques’

Fighting a fanatical, dug-in enemy in the maze-like infrastructure of his own city has often proved disastrous to armies throughout the history of warfare. But the Battle of Fallujah in November 2004 during the Iraq War could be considered a textbook urban assault by U.S. Marines and soldiers. Lessons learned over 18 months of combat in Iraq crystallized the objectives of U.S. commanders determined to take control of Fallujah — the hotbed of Iraq’s insurgent activity. T...

Nov 18 2019

Braille Flags Give Blind Students a ‘Hands-On’ Experience

For a classroom of young students in Maryland, school begins like every other day — by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Thanks to members of Auxiliary 8509 in Baltimore, these students got to feel these words recently — by reading them in Braille. They study at the Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) in Nottingham, Md., where Cynthia Palmer Davis, life member and president of the Department of Maryland Auxiliary, recently gifted a supply of “tactile,” or perceptible by...

Nov 15 2019

VFW Helps Single Dad Avoid 'Rough Road'

For Jamie Biddix, 40, of N.C., a military career just made sense. His father, a veteran who served in Korea and Vietnam, was his hero. G.I. Joe and drawing helicopters filled his childhood. By the time he reached high school, he was working on diesel engines. Biddix saw the Army as an ideal career choice and enlisted, ready to take on training, education and life experiences while living his dream of being a soldier. Biddix trained at Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Knox, K...

Nov 13 2019

Veteran Keeps Her Home Thanks to Unmet Needs Grant

Gaybriel Rockett had no idea a trip to a recruiting station with her uncle during her senior year of high school would result in a military career. “While I waited, a go-getter recruiter suggested I take the practice ASVAB. I did well and suddenly I was headed to take the physical, then given a job and a date to leave after graduation,” said Rockett. “I decided to join because I had nothing to look forward to in my hometown of East St. Louis, so it was a way to gain leve...