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VFW National - 10/1/2024

The VFW's Disaster Relief Fund provides our organization the opportunity to react quickly with immediate relief to those in the affected areas.

To support the VFW Disaster Relief Fund, donate online here, or send checks payable to the VFW, earmarked "Disaster Relief” to:

Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation
Disaster Relief
406 W. 34th Street
Kansas City, MO 64111

In addition to individual gifts, the VFW is encouraging its Departments, Districts and Posts to contribute to the relief efforts. (Post Relief Funds can be used to assist per Section 704 (a) of the Manual of Procedure.)

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OUR MISSION

"That the purpose of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational: to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead; and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies."

Announcements

Friends of the VFW 8738,

Monday, May 25th is Memorial Day.

Please help us honor and remember those that have fallen in service to our country.

We will be handing out Buddy Poppies on Saturday, May 23rd 8am-noon at

Locklair's Farm in Chapin and at Tractor Supply in Red Bank and Gaston

Decorating resting places at Celestial Gardens on Deltree St, West Columbia at 9am on Sunday, May 24th

and participating in ceremonies across the area on Memorial Day, May 25th.

Caughman-Harman Funeral Funeral Home at 10am

Ceremony at the Veterans memorial on South lake in Lexington at noon

And Taps across America at O'Haras at 3pm

Thank you for your service!

Scott Craig

Sr Vice Post 8738