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

Publication: September 2005

General Note: Features
Top Story - VFW Publications: Reference Tools for the Classroom by The Editors
Adjutant General: As One Era Ends, Another Begins by The Editors
Anti-Military Sentiments Persist on Elite Campus by Kara Petrovic
Finns Fought for Rights & Recognition as Veterans by Richard K. Kolb

'A Prisoner's Duty': Eight Daring POW Escapes, Part I by Robert Widener - In honor of POW/MIA Day, we offer the amazing stories of Americans who defied the odds and successfully escaped enemy hands. Part I: Vietnam to WWII Pacific.

Mayhem in the 'Marketplace' by Al Hemingway - The "Hill of Angels" (Con Thien) is well-known as deadly ground in Vietnam, but on July 2, 1967, B Co., 1st Bn., 9th Marines, barely survived an especially brutal ambush.

Iraq - A Final Salute

Columns
Monetary Bequests Assist VFW's Reach
Washington Wire

Departments
Now Hear This
Issues Up Front
Young Vets in Focus
VFW in Action
Membership
Member Benefits
Reunions & Claims
Sound Off

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial300834

Citation: VFW, 574Serial300834. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial300834, Accessed 26 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial300834, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive