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

Publication: September 2010

General Note: The Purple Heart by Fred L. Borch
Commemorate Constitution Day Sept. 17
Veterans Have an Obligation to Teach by Heidi Russell Rafferty
Hurricane Takes Terrible Toll of Doughboys by Willie Drye
Veteran-Signers of the U.S. Constitution by Robert Widener

Rendezvous at Ripcord by Charles Hawkins - For three weeks in July 1970, elements of the 101st's 3rd Brigade waged the last major U.S. battle in Vietnamn. They suffered 74 KIA and 400 WIA in the dreaded A Shau Valley, a place where victory was no longer politically possible.

A Final Salute
Call of the Wild: War Veterans as 'Lumberjacks' by Janie Blankenship

Return to Vietnam Revives Memories by Jerry Newberry - Fifteen Purple Heart recipients made some lasting friendships courtesy of VFW's Kahle Fund, which sponsors special trips for wounded veterans.

Past Commander-in-Chief Richard Homan Dies

Columns
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This - Vietnam Trip Form
Issues Up Front
Book Corner
VFW in Action
Membership
Member Benefits
Reunions & Claims
Young Vets in Focus

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Citation: VFW, 574Serial483245. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial483245, Accessed 01 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial483245, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive