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The Veterans of Foreign Wars ( VFW ), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is a patriotic organization of U.S. war veterans who fought in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign land, waters, or airspace as military service members. [5] [7] Established on September 29, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio, [8] the VFW is ...
Nisei VFW Post 8985. / 38.57639°N 121.50361°W / 38.57639; -121.50361. Nisei Memorial VFW Post 8985 was founded in 1947 by Japanese-American World War II veterans of the 442nd RCT and the Military Intelligence Service in Sacramento, California. Its members would form the first of 14 segregated Nisei VFW posts chartered in California.
VFW Post 7814 is historically African-American post, chartered in 1946 following World War II to serve Black veterans who were denied membership in other VFW posts. Many of the veterans buried in ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Walter R. Mickens Post 6021 and William Weech American Legion Post 168 is an historic building in Key West, Florida. Ground was broken for it in 1951. It was primarily dedicated to serve black military personnel deployed in the Florida Keys.
Members of VFW Post 4931 and American Legion Post 614, both from Hilliard, prepare to do a three-volley gun salute as part of military funeral honors in December 2022 for a Korean War veteran at ...
Members of the Sgt. Charles A. Fricke VFW Post 805 march in the annual Veterans Day parade in O’Fallon last year. Maurice Bridges, the state junior vice commander at the VFW, will be working ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Building in Reno, Nevada, located at 255 VFW Historic Ln, is a historic building that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The building was a combined work of VFW Post 207 (founded 1926) and VFW Post 9211 (founded 1944), and includes a "semi-subterranean hall" in Reno's Tighe Park.
The Memorial Day parade presented by Canal Fulton VFW Post 9795 will be 9 to 10 a.m. May 27. It will begin at Lindsay Concrete and travel along Erie Street, turn right onto Market Street, and end ...