BROCKTON — Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1046 celebrates its 100th anniversary on Saturday. It's a milestone many VFWs never reach amid long-term declines in membership. So why does Brockton's VFW ...
For decades, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts across the United States were dominated by men who fought in World War II and during the Korean War. Those VFW members drank beer and whiskey, played cards ...
THE VFW IS THE COUNTRY’S OLDEST WAR VETERANS ORGANIZATION, BUT MEMBERSHIP HAS BEEN DECLINING FOR DECADES. SO VETERANS ARE NOW PUSHING FOR MORE PEOPLE TO BE INVOLVED, ESPECIALLY WITH VETERANS DAY ...
As Veterans Day draws to a close, the older vets from long-ago battlefields are understandably wondering who will take their place and keep time-honored organizations like the VFW going in the years ...
New Orleans Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973 members participating in a community cleanup event, May 8, 2022. (Facebook/NOLA VFW Post 8973) New Orleans’ last remaining Veterans of Foreign Wars post ...
ZANESVILLE — It's not something Glenn Moore gets used to, but funerals have become a part of life for him and other members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Putnam. VFW Post 1058 has been seeing ...
Don Foran, who as a teenager spent the last months of World War II on dangerous assignments driving a jeep, restored and donated the same model of a 1942 jeep to the Canyon VFW post. (Lauren Koski/The ...
WEST CARROLLTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Every Tuesday night you can find the seats full at the Veterans of War Post 3438 in West Carrollton for bingo night. According to Post Commander Joe Ketring, it’s one of ...
Jim Barger's throne at Charleston, South Carolina's VFW Post 445 is the corner barstool, where the 91-year-old Army veteran sits back and sips from a foamy glass of Stella Artois. It's "Wing Wednesday ...