Latest Releases: VFW

- 7/22/2025

Latest Releases


JUL222025

Student Vets Advocate on Capitol Hill

The 2024-2025 VFW-SVA Fellowship has concluded, and another generation of talented student veterans are ready for change. Since 2015, the VFW and Student Veterans of America Fellowship Program has helped student veterans better understand the process behind advocating for veteran-friendly legislation and allows for student veterans to work closely with lawmakers responsible for maintaining veteran’s policy. Each year, VFW selects the fellows from SVA’s ranks as part of t...

JUL212025

'There's No Bad Part to the Day'

In September, members of VFW Post 9202 in Germantown, Wisconsin, and its Auxiliary will come together for their fourth annual golf tournament. First started by Auxiliary member Leah Weber to honor her father, who is a member of VFW Post 9202, the tournament hopes to raise funds for local charities, the local police department, the local K-9 unit and any local veterans in need of assistance. "It began as a way to support my dad and the Post,” Weber said. Over the past thr...

JUL212025

Rising to the Occasion

When deadly flash floods swept across parts of Texas in early July, VFW Post 12235 in Salado stepped up to collect donations for those hit hardest. In just a few days, Post 12235 members, with support from the Salado community, collected over $10,000 worth of food, supplies, and clothing for flood victims in Kerrville, about four hours away. "This is part of our duties as VFW members,” Post 12235 Commander Minnie Whitzel said. "To take action and assist people in times o...

JUL182025

Uniting to Combat Hunger VFW Encourages National Convention Members to Participate

In anticipation of the 2025 VFW National Convention in August in Columbus, Ohio, the VFW and Humana are continuing the Uniting to Combat Hunger (UTCH) program which has provided more than 5.6 million meals for food-insecure families since 2018. Last year, at the 125th VFW National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, volunteers participated in a UTCH seed-packing event aimed at helping families affected by food insecurity. Those seeds were sent across the country to distr...

JUL172025

‘To be Remembered Now, It Means So Much to Them’

The Quilts of Valor Foundation (QOV), in collaboration with the "Just-a-Stitch” quilt guild, recently made a pit stop at VFW Post 4912 in West Point, Neb., where 14 members of the Post were presented with quilts. "Just-a-Stitch,” based out of West Point, designed, sewed and presented the quilts that the Post members received. The guild has been collaborating with the QOV since 2018 and has awarded more than 150 quilts. The hand-made quilts serve both to comfort those who...