The VFW, with its Auxiliary, includes 2.6 million members
in approximately 9,000 Posts worldwide. Our accomplishments are many, including lobbying for a GI bill
for the 20th century; donating more than $1 million
each to the Vietnam, Korean, Women in the Service
and World War II memorials; fighting for
compensation to veterans diagnosed
with Gulf War Syndrome; and improving VA medical
centers serv
ices for women veterans. In 2001, VFW unveiled its tribute to service and country
with its dedication of Centennial Plaza . Annually, VFW members and its Ladies Auxiliary contribute
more than 13 million hours of volunteerism in the community,
including participation in Make A Difference Day and National Volunteer Week. From providing $2.5 million in college scholarships to high school
students every year to encouraging elevation of the
Veterans Administration to the president's cabinet,
the VFW is there--honoring the dead by helping the living. The objects of the Veterans of Foreign Wars are fraternal, patriotic, historical
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, whomsoever.
