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Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for women and women Veterans. VA encourages all to recognize National Wear Red Day, Friday, Feb. 3, by sporting some red to help raise awareness of heart disease for all women.

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012, the Veterans Task Force of Kentuckiana, a group that has actively supported Veterans and the Robley Rex VA Medical Center for the past five years, presented Medical Center Director, Wayne L. Pfeffer, with a check for $12,833.22.

The New York VFW's educationpartnershipwithExcelsiorCollege, forged in early 2011 to help engage younger veterans with the VFW, has begun to show results for VFW members seeking to complete college degrees.

VFW spouses and domestic partners are also eligible for Excelsior degree programs, with reduced tuition and fees under new statewide education partnership

The VFW has named USAA as its preferred provider of automobile, homeowners, renters and valuable personal property insurance, adding to existing endorsements of USAA’s banking and investment solutions.

A local military historian would like to know where all the artifacts have gone that used to be displayed at the Toledo Zoo? Nick Haupricht has been looking into the mystery of the missing artifacts for several years and says he has reason to believe that hundreds of items, including historic weapons, artworks,

ALBANY, N.Y. (March 18, 2010)– The Department of New York State Veterans of Foreign Wars has signed an education partnership agreement with Excelsior College, a nonprofit distance learning institution based in Albany, in a statewide effort to draw younger veterans and their spouses to the membership rolls of local VFW posts.

HOLY DISTRACTION, THE BATTLE OF THE CROSSES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, a 3 judge panel, the 9th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals,...

Internal Debate Within the VFW brings the relationship of their Veterans' advocacy group and Political Action Committee under scrutiny. While catching up on my emails this morning, I was led to two articles posted on Congress.org about disunity within the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) that pit their national leadership against grassroots members of the VFW.

Veteran Service Organizationn need to publish the list of 130 military bases on the EPA Superfund list to their membership. Most veterans have no idea that bases they served on are now EPA Superfund sites. A number may have been exposed to deadly contaminants, are now sick, and have never connected the dots to military service. These men and women need to know what chemcials they were exposed to so their doctors can provide an effective treatment plan. Keeping them in the dark is definitely not helpful.

The Morgan Fascist Coup Plot and How FDR Defeated It

Mike Hamilton of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was convicted recently of violating the "Stolen Valor Act." Hamilton's Marine uniform sported 2 Navy Crosses, 4 Silver stars along with 74 other medals and ribbons. When the Supreme Court overturned the "Stolen Valor Act" as unconstitutional, a violation of "freedom of speech," Hamilton's conviction was overturned. He currently faces charges for other violations, perhaps even more curious ones, but Hamilton himself isn't the problem. There are some serious questions as to whether "Colonel" Hamilton is competent to stand trial. Today, veterans groups are swooping around Mike Hamilton like vultures, looking for a meal. A few short months ago, he was the darling of the "rubber chicken" circuit, spouting the myths they wanted to hear, waving the flag and cheering on the horse manure of that is so popular to the American "right."

A DEBT, NOT A GIFT By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans are patriotic to a fault. Even when we see and hear politicians and bureaucrats...

 -  " was going to be different, and that it was going to be house-to-house and urban combat. And that type of warfare requires...

FORGING THEIR OWN CHAINS AND SHACKLES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Millions of illegal aliens, thousands members of dangerous drug gangs, have taken over city...

WAR AND SUFFERING, SOLDIERS AND VETERANS DROWNING IN SORROW AND DESPAIR WHILE AMERICA FOCUSES ON THE "MOJAVE CROSS" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Click.  There it...

Veterans fighting to gain the benefits and care earned, deserved, and decades long over due!

Senators Propose TRICARE Dependent Coverage Extension Act A bill introduced to the U.S. Senate April 14 would, if passed into law, enable the dependent children...

DOING NOTHING AT ALL WOULD BE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT ALLOWING VETERANS TO DIE QUIETLY, BETTER THAN THE ABUSE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor America has been at...

NEVER HAS ANY GROUP BEEN SINGLED OUT BY DARWIN TO SUCH A DEGREE NO WONDER THEY ARE "CREATIONISTS" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One in ten...

THE "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" REDEFINED AS CLEARLY ANTI-AMERICAN WHY ARE SOME "PATRIOTIC GROUPS" SOFT ON AMERICAN VALUES? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Are some of America's...

U.S. Rep Chet Edwards (D-Waco), member of the House Appropriations Committee and Chair of the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, slammed...

Rees Lloyd is a confused man.  Lloyd, pictured at left, wants to sue to silence VT for criticizing veterans service organizations' not lending institutional support and coming to...

The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation.  May 17,...

Nearly 3,000 Individuals Have Responded to the CalVet Survey To Help Prioritize Services to California’s Veterans Sacramento – Nearly 3,000 individuals have responded to the...

BIGGEST WAR OF VETS AGAINST "VET HATING" SPECIAL INTEREST AND VA CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY WHERE ARE THE SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Robert...

NO MORE CORPORATE RUN "MILITIA" GROUPS NO MORE CONTROLLED PRESS AND "POLITICS AS USUAL" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I am sick and tired of what...

Do Americans torture, or do we not! That's the big question in the ongoing debate regarding a waterboarding technique used by the military and CIA to interrogate a few suspected terrorists in order to obtain information that could prevent any future attacks on the United States.