VFW Post 9180

05/27/2026

☀️ Texas heat is here — let’s help keep Kaufman County seniors safe and cool this summer! ☀️

The Senior Connect Center is currently collecting box fans and cases of bottled water to help local senior citizens stay cool and hydrated during the hot summer months.

Want to help? Donations can be dropped off at the Kaufman Chamber of Commerce office:

📍 607 E Fair Street, Kaufman, TX

Every donation makes a difference for a local senior. ❤️ Please help us spread the word and support our communit

05/27/2026

05/26/2026

05/25/2026

Police Officer Jacob Candanoza of the Terrell Police Department who was shot and killed in the line of duty, during a traffic stop.

Officer Candanoza was transported to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Forney, where he later succumbed to his injuries. A former United States Marine who served from 2014 to 2019, he had joined the Terrell Police Department only months earlier after previously working with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office. He left behind his wife, young daughter, parents, siblings, fellow officers, and a grieving North Texas community that honored him with a large law enforcement procession.

Since his death in 2024, he was Remembered as a dedicated officer, Marine veteran, husband, and father, Jacob Candanoza was described by loved ones as generous, hardworking, and deeply committed to serving others. His sacrifice deeply impacted the law enforcement community across Texas, with hundreds gathering to pay tribute to a young officer whose career and life were taken far too soon. Rest easy, Officer Jacob Candanoza, your service and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

05/25/2026

05/19/2026

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05/17/2026

🇺🇸 Preparing the Ground Before Memorial Day

As Armed Forces Day passes and we move closer to Memorial Day, communities across Kaufman County are already hard at work carrying forward a responsibility that means far more than ceremony. Long before the gatherings, speeches, and public moments of remembrance begin, veterans, volunteers, families, and local organizations quietly step forward to prepare the ground itself for honoring those who never made it home.

Today in and around Scurry, preparations continued through flag distribution efforts and cemetery support throughout the community. While these tasks may appear simple from the outside, they carry a deeper meaning that many who have served understand immediately. Every flag represents a name, a story, a family, and a sacrifice permanently woven into the fabric of this nation. Each one serves as a reminder that freedom has never been free, comfortable, or guaranteed.

What makes these moments important is not just patriotism, but continuity. In smaller communities especially, remembrance is still personal. It is neighbors helping neighbors, veterans standing beside younger generations, and families ensuring that the sacrifices of the past are not lost beneath the speed and distraction of modern life. Memorial Day was never intended to become just another long weekend. It exists because countless Americans gave everything they had, many never returning home to experience the freedoms they helped preserve for others.

That is why these preparations matter so much. They remind us that remembrance is not passive and it is not automatic. It requires participation. It requires people willing to show up, carry the flags, tend the grounds, tell the stories, and teach the next generation why these traditions continue.

Thank you to everyone throughout Kaufman County helping prepare for Memorial Day. Your efforts may not always receive attention, but they preserve something far greater than recognition. They preserve memory, honor, and the enduring connection between service, sacrifice, and community.

05/17/2026

🇺🇸 Rolling Thunder, Run For The Wall, and the Echo of the Open Road

Every year, the sound of motorcycles rolling across America becomes more than an event. It becomes a moving memorial.

From Rolling Thunder to Run For The Wall, riders carry more than flags and leather jackets down the highway. They carry names, memories, silence, grief, brotherhood, and unfinished conversations from wars that many Americans only know through history books.

As the riders pass through Terrell, communities gather along the roads not simply to watch motorcycles go by, but to acknowledge something deeper — that freedom has always traveled with a cost, and remembrance is one way we keep sacrifice from disappearing into noise and time.

For many veterans, the ride is not about politics. It is about accountability to those who never made it home, those still missing, and those who came home carrying burdens invisible to the world around them.

There is something profoundly symbolic about thousands of motorcycles crossing the country together.

An individual bike can be overlooked.

A convoy cannot.

The roar becomes collective memory in motion.

It reminds us that healing is rarely isolated. Veterans often survived because someone beside them refused to quit. That same spirit continues on the road today — riders supporting riders, communities supporting veterans, and strangers standing on overpasses waving flags for people they may never meet again.

✨ Some ride for brothers and sisters lost in combat.
✨ Some ride for those lost after returning home.
✨ Some ride because silence hurts more than the miles.
✨ Some simply ride so America does not forget.

In a world increasingly distracted by outrage cycles and endless digital noise, events like Run For The Wall still ground people in something tangible: presence, remembrance, and shared humanity.

The road itself becomes symbolic.
Long. Difficult. Enduring.
But never traveled alone.

To every rider rolling through Texas this season — especially those stopping near Terrell — thank you for continuing the mission of remembrance, brotherhood, and visibility for veterans, POWs, MIAs, and the families who still carry the weight of service long after the wars end.

Some memorials are built from stone.
Others arrive with thunder.

05/14/2026

Join us on Sunday, May 17 at 8:20 a.m. at Brookshire's to cheer on motorcycle riders in the 36th Annual Run for the Wall. The riders will be making a fuel stop in Terrell as part of their cross-country route to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.