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May 07 2020

Veteran Rewrites His Script with VFW Scholarship

In 2009, Todd Fuerst was unhappy with where his life was headed. After a string of jobs, the Newnan, Georgia, native decided to join the Air Force to provide stability for his family. Enlistment allowed him to learn a new trade while doing something honorable for his country and those important to him. It also allowed him to be part of something bi...

May 07 2020

VFW Members Make Face Masks for Active-Duty Sailors during COVID-19 Pandemic

VFW Post members around the world have been donating their time and effort to make masks for their community members across the world. However, members from VFW Post 5867 in Lakeside, Calif., and VFW Post 3787’s Auxiliary in San Diego have taken it a step further. These VFW and Auxiliary members made masks for active-duty sailors in the area...

May 05 2020

Connecticut VFW Post Provides COVID-19 Assistance to its Community

A VFW Post in Connecticut used its social media reach in March to help needy community members during the COVID-19 pandemic. VFW Post 1532 in Putnam, Conn., used its location as a drop-off point for donations to the older residents, including veterans, according to Post Quartermaster Antonio Rendon. “We have reached out to our community on Fa...

Apr 30 2020

VA Reports Shortfalls with Women's Treatment at Top Hospital

One of VA's largest regional health care networks has come under scrutiny by the Department's inspector general's office. The North Texas VA Health Care System reportedly went without a full-time gynecologist for almost two years. Other issues reported includes a lack of privacy and secure spaces for female patients, according to the Jan. 23 report...

Apr 30 2020

Yoga Provides Mental Strength

When Army Special Forces vet Brad Whiteman began dabbling in yoga, he did so to support his wife, Eliza, who was teaching yoga classes. But about seven years ago, he “selfishly” began yoga in earnest when he realized his body wasn’t responding to his lifestyle as it once had. “I really didn’t classify myself as a regul...

Apr 29 2020

Proud to Serve in the Fight for Veterans

VFW Life member Ron Cherry, 48, spends his days helping fellow veterans and their families. In serving them, he feels he has found his purpose in life. As a supervisor in the National Veterans Service (NVS) office in Kansas City, Missouri, Cherry oversees a team committed to assisting veterans as well as their spouses and dependents. He’s pro...

Apr 29 2020

VFW Scholarship Helps Vet ‘Put Letters Behind His Name’

“I find when you’re doing something that’s right for you, everything else eventually falls into place,” said 25-year-old Cody Taylor of Crouse, North Carolina. He understands the importance of hard work and an education to achieve the things he sets out to do. As a drilling Navy Reservist for five and a half years, Taylor vo...

Apr 28 2020

VFW Kicks Off Annual Youth Scholarship Competitions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is now accepting entries for its 2020-21 Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen youth scholarship competitions. The announcement comes just weeks after the VFW’s 2020 Legislative Conference concluded in Washington, D.C., where the top national winners of both contests were recogn...

Apr 27 2020

Veterans Turn War Experiences Into Poetry

In late March 2003, while standing outside Nasiriyah, Iraq, former Marine Sgt. Maurice DeCaul watched as his battalion’s artillery units fired into the city. “On the outskirts of the city of Nasiriyah, on our right and left flanks, you had Marine battalions bombarding the city,” he said. “Hearing the guns going off and then ...

Apr 27 2020

'You Got This'

Self-described “military brat” Yolanda Eddings, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, knew from a young age that she wanted to join the armed services. She enlisted in 2007, following in her father’s footsteps after growing up seeing his career in the Army. Eddings’ military career spanned nine years. She was deployed to Iraq and...