Posted on Aug 29, 2015
VFW Post closed due to fiscal mismanagement?
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It appears to be the case and it might be permanent too.
http://www.waaytv.com/appnews/vfw-post-closes-for-state-audit/article_f5f3257c-4dc7-11e5-a794-0bcd5817ccc9.html
http://www.waaytv.com/appnews/vfw-post-closes-for-state-audit/article_f5f3257c-4dc7-11e5-a794-0bcd5817ccc9.html
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Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
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Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Huntsville
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I belong to VFW and American Legion posts where we don't smoke and we don't chew (and we don't go with girls who do). We focus on helping vets file claims, care for homeless vets, visit with vets in VA hospital, fight for vets causes, and occasionally socialize (a potluck now and then) and breakfast every Friday at a vet-owned and operated cafe. We don't have a facility of our own and the ones we rent have WiFi. Still, young vets aren't interested. They show up maybe once or twice. I guess they don't like the smell of old vets. Their needs? Girls and jobs. To be fair, I sympathize. Those were my primary concerns when I was a new vet and didn't join the VFW and AL until I was 70 (and smelled just as bad as the other old vets). Maybe it was different following WWII. It was a different time, a different America. Maybe the VFW and AL also have to become different, but then will us old farts go?
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CSM Charles Hayden
CPT Durish, Please cruise North to: al291.com You may need a reservation for Friday or for your boat. Given a time, I'll meet you for a Bud Lite and Taco Tuesday. Chuck
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CPT Jack Durish
Thanks for the invitation CSM Charles Hayden It looks like a great place but I'm more into the service side of things. Also, I joined the AL forming in Irvine to fight for our veterans cemetery in the OC Great Park that a segment of the expat population is attempting to block. Have you been following that story?
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CSM Charles Hayden
CPT Jack Durish The OC Register had a small blurb a month ago, it was mostly about resistance from Asian residents. I do not recall a service organization being mentioned, maybe I just missed that.
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SSG(P) D. Wright Downs
To get the younger veteran, there is the same thing missing as there was after VN and I will shout it out COMMUNICATION...does anyone ask the new vets what they need? What they want--yes, jobs and help with their claims. They need help with finding good child care---women vets are out there, too. they need rides to the VA and DAV helps with that. Be their source of information. Be their source of where to go. They are in school...have anyone who can tutor them in some oth the hardass subjects?? I went backto school and was a fulltime mom and wife and full time student. It was hard having a student tutor who could answer questions when i needed one to answer my questions when I was doing homework on the stupid math. Think outside the box as to what the new veterans need...if they can't tell you, make some suggestions. Think back to when you were a young veteran..I was never young--I was old when I enlisted.
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I had to Close my Post 10299 Prairie Village, KS when we just couldn't get enough folks to make a quorum. A few in our VFW District had to close for Mismanagement but mostly just not enough veterans and or interested veterans. Also there is a Chasm of Cultural Differences between the Older and Younger Veterans I've noticed at least in the Johnson County, KS Community.
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MSgt Joshua Copeland, I do not understand the decline in mbrshp. I recently joined a local American Legion here in CA, my observations are that the mbrshp has a good mix of ages, perhaps light on recent service, but it is in a relatively 'senior' area of CA.
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TSgt Joshua Copeland
CSM Charles Hayden, I think a lot of it might have to do with the culture each post develops. It seems many of them are less then welcoming to OEF/OIF/Desert Storm era vets.
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