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General Note: Frequency Varies / Subtitle: Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine / Varying Title: VFW Magazine

Publication: January 2004

General Note: Top Story
Crisis in High Drug Costs Affects Veterans by Shannon Hanson
Finding Missing Military Records at State Archives by Margaret Moen
Gearing Up for the WWII Memorial Dedication by Janie Blankenship

Features
VA Activates Crisis Response Team for Homeland Security by Janie Blankenship

Purple Hearts, Vietnam & a Hunt to Remember by Jack Ballard - Three Vietnam vet amputees found success in a Montana antelope hunt, but also a renewed sense of camaraderie among fellow wounded soldiers.

Iraq: A Final Salute
Kansas Town Birthplace of Veteran Day by Julie Carter

'Graveyard' at LZ 4: Battle of Cu Nghi by Al Hemingway - A three-day battle in January 1966 found elements of the 1st Cavalry Division fighting on the Bong Son Plain during Operation Masher.

Korea DMZ Vets & Agent Orange by Ted Sypko
Far West Hosts Sites from Frontier Warfare by Shannon Hanson
2003-2004 Committees: Serving Veterans
Past Commander-in-Chief Eric Sandstrom Dies

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This
Member Benefits
Jest A Minute
Reunions & Claims

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial160440

Citation: VFW, 574Serial160440. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial160440, Accessed 02 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial160440, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive