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The Military Order of the Cootie of the United States (MOC, or simply Military Order of the Cootie) is a national honor degree membership association separately constituted as a subordinate and as an auxiliary order chartered by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW). [1]
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.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Building in Reno, Nevada, located at 255 VFW Historic Ln, is a historic building that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1] [2] The building was a combined work of VFW Post 207 (founded 1926) and VFW Post 9211 (founded 1944), and includes a "semi-subterranean hall" in Reno's Tighe ...
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A voyageur can disclose that they belongs to said organization, but not all of what goes on at its meetings. The Forty and Eight meeting is known as a promenade and has its own set ritual. The ceremony to initiate a new member, known as a P.G. for Poor Goof or Prisoner de Gare into the 40 & 8 is known as a "wreck".
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Hastings: Peller Post 89 purchased one-half acre of land for a cemetery in 1905. It holds graves of Civil War and Spanish–American War veterans. [51] In 1998, local VFW post 1210 restored the cemetery. [52] Litchfield: The hall of Frank Daggett Post 35 has been preserved and houses a GAR museum. [52]
Kate Middleton and Prince William are feeling the love on Valentine’s Day!. On Friday, Feb. 14, the Prince and Princess of Wales marked the day in a rare move by posting a photo of themselves ...