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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tomorrow, on Sept. 29, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. will celebrate 119 years since its establishment. Each year VFW Day is celebrated at VFW Posts and in communities...
View ArticleDelayed Housing Payments Impacting 180,000 Student Veterans
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is urging tens of thousands of student veterans to immediately contact the Department of Veterans Affairs at 888-GIBILL-1 (or...
View ArticleNew Chief Vows to 'Make it Happen'
VFW's newest commander-in-chief is a man who wants to get things done, sooner rather than later. His experiences as an artilleryman in Korea and an undercover police officer in New Mexico, as well as...
View ArticleVFW Urges Congress to Hold Oversight Hearings on Forever GI Bill
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is calling on both the Senate and House Committees on Veterans' Affairs to hold oversight hearings on the recent delayed payments of Department of...
View ArticleVFW Continues Its Strong Support of GWOT Memorial
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is proud to continue its support of building a memorial in the nation's capital dedicated to the Global War on Terror. Michael "Rod"...
View ArticleOpioids Offer 'No Advantage' and Are Addictive
Minneapolis VA researchers found that opioid pain medication might not be the powerful "wonder drug" many people believe it to be. Published in March by the Journal of the American Medical Association...
View ArticleVA Rates 70 Percent of its Nursing Homes as Failures
WASHINGTON - The national commanders of the nation's two largest veterans organizations are demanding that Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie bring immediate attention to his...
View ArticleNational Academies Link Hypertension, MGUS to Agent Orange Exposure
WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to add hypertension and a precursor to multiple myeloma to the current list of 14 presumptive...
View ArticleTake Action: Urge Your Senators to Support the Blue Water Navy Bill Now
Urge Your Senators to Support the Blue Water Navy Bill Now Take Action! Background: Congress is very close to passing H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2018, which would end the...
View ArticleUtah Senator Stops Blue Water Navy Bill
WASHINGTON - The objection by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to passing H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2018, by unanimous consent today on the Senate floor has effectively doomed any...
View ArticleVFW Calls New York Times Article Off-Base
WASHINGTON - The national commander of America's largest and oldest major war veterans' organization is calling an article published yesterday in the New York Times off-base and biased against pre-9/11...
View ArticleVFW and SVA Announce 2019 Student Veteran Fellowship Class
WASHINGTON - Ten Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. members and Student Veterans of America leaders have been selected for the 2019 VFW-SVA Fellowship program. The announcement was made Saturday at...
View ArticleVFW: America Needs to Protect Our Protectors
WASHINGTON - The federal government has been in a partial shutdown for nearing three weeks because Congress and the administration cannot reach an agreement over how much to spend on border protection....
View ArticleAction Alert: Tell Congress to Pass Blue Water Navy Legislation Now!
The VFW is urging its members and supporters to tell Congress to pass Blue Water Navy legislation now! This past year, Congress failed to pass H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, which...
View ArticleAction Alert: Pay Our Coast Guard!
VFW Action Alert: Pay Our Coast Guard! The federal government has been in a partial shutdown for more than three weeks because Congress and the administration cannot reach an agreement on border...
View ArticleVeterans Service Organizations Issue The Independent Budget Policy Agenda for...
WASHINGTON - Today, DAV, Paralyzed Veterans of America and Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States released The Independent Budget Veterans Agenda for the 116th Congress which contains policy...
View ArticleVFW Blue Water Navy Vet Wins Federal Appeals Court Ruling
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a decade-old ruling yesterday that potentially paves the way for the return of earned disability benefits for some 90,000...
View ArticleIndiana Post Raises $12,500 for Suicide Awareness
For the second year in a row, members of VFW Post 1587 in Speedway, Ind., and its Auxiliary walked to raise awareness about the rate of suicide among veterans. Last year, the Post sponsored its first...
View ArticleVFW Launches New Mobile Event App
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. has designed a new mobile event app to give attendees the tools needed to make the most out of attending VFW national events. The new VFW...
View ArticleVeterans Groups Say $103 Billion in Funding Needed for FY20
WASHINGTON - In advance of the Administration's budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 and advance appropriations for FY 2021, the three coauthors of The Independent Budget (IB) - Veterans of Foreign...
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