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

Publication: November 2008

General Note: Polytrauma Centers Serve Severly Wounded Vets by Kelly Lanigan
Escape to Nowhere: Veterans and Suicide by Janice Arenofsky
National Security & Foreign Affairs: Influencing Defense, Foreign Policy - Inside VFW: Part III by Jamie Netzer
Chaplains Provide Spiritual Comfort on the Battlefield by Janie Blankenship

FSB Illingworth Illuminated in a 'Titanic Roar' by Tim Dyhouse - On April 1, 1970, a Communist battalion attacked an American firease near the Cambodian border. Defended by elements of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, as well as several artillery units, the GIs fought off the North Vietnamese for two hours.

VFW Sponsors Cookout for Marines and Sailors by Janie Blankenship
Disabilities No Barrier for Amputee Golfers by Tim Dyhouse
A Final Salute

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This - Vietnam Veterans Center
Issues Up Front
VFW in Action
Membership
Reunions & Claims
Member Benefits
Young Vets

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial431482

Citation: VFW, 574Serial431482. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial431482, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial431482, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive