Purpose & Objectives
The purposes of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States are:
• Preserving and expanding veterans rights and benefits.
• Advocating a strong national defense.
• Promoting patriotism.
• Offering community service.
These objectives are accomplished by:
• Lobbying Congress on behalf of veterans through VFW’s National Legislative Service and monitoring care and seeking assistance through VFW’s National Veterans Service.
• Monitoring overseas troop deployments and the Pentagon’s budget through VFW’s National Security and Foreign Affairs section.
• Educating schoolchildren with the help of VFW members through VFW’s Citizenship Education and Community Service and Youth Development, Scholarship and Recognition departments.
• Serving communities at the local level, such as VFW Post members cleaning roadsides in the
Adopt-a-Highway program, as well as national projects like disaster relief.
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