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Lyall T. Beggs (November 9, 1899 – May 14, 1973) was a past commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Life and education [ edit ]
During World War I he completed officer training, received a commission, and served in France as a member of the 27th Division. Kearney was prominent in veterans affairs, and served as National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars from 1936 to 1937. He remained in the National Guard after the war, attained the rank of brigadier general ...
75th Anniversary 10c postage stamp (1974). The VFW resulted from the amalgamation of several societies formed immediately following the Spanish–American War.In 1899, little groups of veterans returning from campaigning in Cuba and the Philippine Islands, founded local societies upon a spirit of comradeship known only to those who faced the dangers of that war side by side.
Maurice Bridges, the state junior vice commander at the VFW, will be working closely with the new district commander, Rod Thompson, who is a member of O’Fallon VFW Post 805, with outreach for ...
Herrera, who lives in Puyallup and is now a Puyallup Tribal Police Officer, has dedicated much of his post-military career to the national nonprofit Veterans of Foreign Wars, a group that aims to ...
A commander-in-chief or supreme commander (supreme commander-in-chief) is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch. As a technical term, it refers to military competencies that reside in a country's executive leadership, a head of state , head of government , or other designated government ...
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.
Feb. 4—When the Maui wildfire hit last summer, veterans organizations were among many to step up and provide help to the community. Working from Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3850, a somewhat ...