As a nation, we have pros­pered because we have always had cit­i­zens will­ing to rise to answer the call to serve in hours of need. The mil­lions who have worn the mil­i­tary uni­form have expressed our national resolve. Today, we honor our vet­er­ans, past and present, for their unyield­ing sac­ri­fice and ded­i­ca­tion to our great […]

Lan­ham, Md., Aug. 15, 2012 — AMVETS Past National Com­man­der Vaughn L. Brown, Sr. passed away Mon­day, Aug. 13, 2012. Mr. Brown joined the Navy three days after the attack on Pearl Har­bor. He served as a corps­men at a naval hos­pi­tal in Casablanca, Morocco tend­ing to injured ser­vice mem­bers that were attempt­ing to defeat German […]

LANHAM, Md., Aug. 15, 2012—AMVETS lead­ers this week con­grat­u­lated AMVETS 2012 Sum­mer Sweep­stakes grand prize win­ner Nor­mand Bouchard. AMVETS National Com­man­der Gary L. Fry per­son­ally called Bouchard to con­grat­u­late him on win­ning the $10,000 sweep­stakes grand prize. AMVETS selected the 10 lucky sweep­stakes win­ners from approx­i­mately 120,000 entries from around the coun­try for prizes rang­ing from […]

His­tory was made on Capi­tol Hill yes­ter­day when both Sec­re­tary of Defense Leon Panetta and Sec­re­tary of Vet­er­ans Affairs Eric Shin­seki tes­ti­fied together at a joint Armed Ser­vices and Vet­er­ans Affairs Com­mit­tee hear­ing.   The hear­ing, which had very good con­gres­sional atten­dance, was enti­tled, ‘Back from the Bat­tle­field: DoD and VA Col­lab­o­ra­tion to Assist Ser­vice Members […]