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

Publication: March 1999

General Note: Features
A Name to Be Reckoned With by Herbert M. Mason, Jr.
Exciting Events Highlight 100th Convention by Janie Blankenship
Pennsylvania Post Heir to VFW Traditions by Tim Dyhouse
Veterans Programs: Major Overhaul Proposed by John L. Davis

Only the Phony: Wannabe Warriors by Al Hemingway - For some time now, it's been fashionable to be a war veteran - even of Vietnam. But the effect on societal attitudes of those who pretend to be real heroes is far more insidious than realized.

Memories of the Iron Curtain by the editor
Freedoms Foundation Vision Intact by Janie Blankenship
Chief Merrill Dies
Women Veterans Organizations

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This
VFW in Action
Membership
Jest A Minute
Reunions & Claims

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Citation: VFW, 574Serial48319. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial48319, Accessed 26 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial48319, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

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