The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Ladies Auxiliaries has over 2.0 million members in 7,800 Posts around the world. Roots of the VFW can be traced back to 1899 when veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippines Insurrection merged organizations to secure the rights and benefits for their service to our Country. At that time, there was no governmental medical care of veterans or veterans’ pensions, so the veterans were left to care for themselves.

Since then, the VFW has been an instrumental factor in establishing the Veterans Administration, creating a GI Bill of Rights for the 21 st century, developing the National Cemetery system, fighting for the compensation for Vietnam Veterans exposed to Agent Orange or those service members diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome, and many, many other veterans’ rights and benefits. The VFW also fights every day to improve the VFW medical center services and facilities for our men and women veterans.

The VFW is a congressionally chartered veterans’ organization that especially focuses on direct community involvement in the community of each Post and those surrounding communities. The VFW annually donates millions hours towards community service (recent statistics showing more than 13 million), helping mentor youth groups, working in community soup kitchens, volunteering in blood drives, visiting hospitalized veterans and on and on. For over 100 years, the VFW has continuously gathered volumes of supporters, donated millions of hours of community service and millions of dollars to communities, schools, and others while it builds up a beneficent organization that reaches across the United States and the world for the main benefit of our military veterans.

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