Paul-Lockhart VFW Post 6187

08/28/2026

Don't forget to put the Community Table lunch on your calendars for next Tuesday at noon! A huge thanks to Paul-Lockhart VFW Post 6187 and CARL for serving this free lunch for our community!

08/28/2026

A woman's eighth grade assignment led to a 40-year search for a Fort Fairfield Marine killed in Vietnam, connecting her with the friends who knew him.

08/28/2026

08/27/2026

September 11, 2026. 25 Years, one tear jerker of a day, and one karaoke in the County...we are ready.

08/22/2026

Great collaborative event this past week with Housing Authority of Fort Fairfield! As part one of our Back-to-School drive, we donated eight fully stocked backpacks for students in need. Part two sees our post providing supplies to the Fort Fairfield Elementary School and Fort Fairfield Middle High School. Thank you to those supporting this effort, and if you want to support by adding donations of tissues or Clorox wipes, you can drop them off anytime this weekend or any night next week. More to report soon!

08/14/2026

We hope to see you there for this worthy cause, save the date!

Blue Collar Believers RC would like to invite everyone to our upcoming Spaghetti Dinner!

We are looking forward to this special Greet and Eat event and the opportunity to get to know the community we serve. This gathering will give community members a chance to meet the founding members of Blue Collar Believers RC while enjoying a delicious meal.

Our founding members will be hard at work preparing homemade sauce for the occasion. We hope you'll join us for an evening of good food, fellowship, and community connection.

Contributions from this event will go directly toward helping individuals and families in our community who are facing difficult times and need a helping hand. Your support will make a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve.

We can't wait to see you there!

Blue Collar Believers RC

08/10/2026

Recommend you grab a Kleenex before reading below.

It is 1968: the Fort Fairfield (Maine) High School Class of ’67 go about their adult lives, many in uniform, several in Vietnam. All gave some; one gave ALL.

It is 1986: eighth grade students at Lawrence Junior High in Fairfield, Maine receive an assignment ahead of a trip to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC. Choose a Veteran from that wall, research them as an assignment. Young Nikki does something unique in her class. Rather than choosing a Fairfield Veteran, as many classmates do, she chooses to pick one from Fort Fairfield, up north.

It is 1986, no one can spell Internet, or Wi-Fi. Smart phones are in a bag, a luxury item of the rich, and not at all smart. Pagers are a thing. We use Wikipedia, but known by a far lengthier, and far heavier volume, the Encyclopedia Britannica. And no, having a login does not allow for peer edits (what’s a login?). Yet persevere young Nikki will, and information she finds. LCpl Dave Austin Cox, USMC, Fort Fairfield Class of 1967, KIA May 17, 1968, Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam.

Nikki would find information on her subject, learning about him any way she could. She would celebrate his every birthday, acknowledge his sacrifice on every Veteran’s Day. He would live on as a household name in Nikki’s family for forty years, until her brother, an Iraqi Freedom and VFW Veteran, decided to act.

Paul-Lockhart All-American VFW Post 6187 of Fort Fairfield, Maine, humbly welcomed Nikki Ellis, five members of the Class of 1967 (including three Veterans of the class who also served in Vietnam), for a round table discussion of Dave, his childhood, his hopes, his dreams, his escapades(!), and his aspirations. We stand humbled and proud of the class, of their service, and the opportunity to allow Nikki to finally consider her class assignment complete (and we also think some extra credit may be due!).

Special thanks go out to our Veteran supporters who wished to remain anonymous, but nonetheless donated their time and money to provide refreshments during this amazing and humbling communion in honor of Dave. You know who you are; we do too.

When the karaoke lights dim; when the last raffle winner stands announced; when the birthday party or bereavement concludes; then the meetings adjourn; may we never forget: THIS is why we have a VFW. This is why we continue to serve. This is how we continue to heal. LCpl David Austin Cox, rest well our Brother, Son, classmate, hero, and champion of Freedom, may ever she ring.