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

Publication: October 2010

General Note: Never Forgetting 'Fallen Heroes' by Robert Widener - For Marine Vietnam vet Michael Reagan, drawing portraits of troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq for their families is a never-ending crusade. But the personal rewards are unsurpassable.

Families of Cole Victims Still Awaiting Justice 10 Years Later by Tim Dyhouse
Brits Learned Lessons of Yemen by Richard K. Kolb

Vietnam War: Teaching Understanding and Respect by Kelly Von Lunen - The University of Kansas in Lawrenece is one college that offers a course solely on the Vietnam War. To find out what is being taught, a VFW magazine writer took the entire class. In this case, the professor is a veteran of the war.

Ensuring Their Legacy by Kelly Von Lunen - VFW members contributed a whopping $645,000 to construct an underground museum beneath the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The three-year fund-raising effort concluded this August with VFW leading among vet groups.

'Combat Ready': Carrying Out VFW's Mission by Richard K. Kolb
Leading the Organization by Tim Dyhouse
How to Write Your Familiy's Military History by Margaret Moen
A Final Salute
Convention Competition Winners

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This
Issues Up Front
VFW in Action
Membership
Member Benefits
Reuntions & Claims
Book Corner
Young Vets in Focus

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Citation: VFW, 574Serial483246. No Date, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=574Serial483246, Accessed 31 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 574Serial483246, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive