Marblehead VFW

09/05/2026

“Let’s Go”‼️You have nothing better to do for a few hours on a Saturday morning than to RUN / WALK / RUCK and if you can’t do that, come and volunteer‼️ It does stop there can’t make it for the race come to the fundraiser in The Bunker that night with Brenden and Nick‼️

09/04/2026

09/02/2026

Ten Days Away🏆🥳‼️🇺🇸

08/31/2026

08/31/2026

Not just another date, August 31 marks the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which began in 2003 and asked hundreds of thousands of Americans to serve and sacrifice with courage far from home.

Nearly 4,500 U.S. service members did not return home.
Another 31,994 service members were wounded in action.
And still today, injuries and illnesses have emerged, persist, and are diagnosed years later.

The mission ended. The effects of service did not.

Veterans returning home have continued to experience health conditions associated with the hazards and exposures of military service. A reminder of the magnitude of what service members have been asked to do and the responsibility that comes with asking them to do it.

Honor the Contract is a reminder of the commitment made when these men and women raised their right hands and signed their enlistment contracts.
Those benefits are not charity. They are not a handout. They are not something a Veteran must prove they deserve. And they should not be up for negotiation after the fact. They were earned.

The VFW continues to call on our nation to Honor the Contract,
Oppose Section 108 of the Take Care of America's Veterans Act,
Stop the reduction of future Veterans' disability compensation to fund other provisions of the legislation

Pass TCAVA without asking one generation of Veterans to sacrifice benefits earned by another.

On this commemoration day, we remember those who served, honor those who never came home, and recognize the strength and sacrifice of the generations who answered the call.
Continue the efforts and tell your representative to remove Section108: https://votervoice.net/VFW/Campaigns/138781/Respond?_gl=1*1omkjs8*_gcl_au*MTA3MDkzOTgyMi4xNzgxMjI3MDI4*_ga*ODgwMTEyMzIyLjE3NTE4Mzc4Nzk.*_ga_GJV0BCNHVD*czE3ODgxMTQ4MDMkbzczJGcwJHQxNzg4MTE0ODAzJGo2MCRsMCRoMjUzNTc3NDA1

08/30/2026

From Andrew O’Shaughnessy in the Washington Post, "The Moment the Revolution Was Nearly Lost" at the end of the article:

"Fortune spared Washington from a more humiliating and potentially more decisive defeat. Believing that there was no means of escape for the Continental Army, Howe unexpectedly made no attempt to pursue the remaining enemy troops and their commanders. He instead began to build trenches for a siege, almost certainly desirous to avoid the heavy losses of the frontal assault at Bunker Hill. He wrote to Germain that his army might well have succeeded if it had proceeded, “but … I would not risk the loss that might have been sustained in the assault and ordered them back.”

In another stroke of good luck for Washington and his troops, a heavy nor’easter suddenly blew up, preventing the enemy frigates from entrapping them. His movements disguised by a thick nighttime fog, Washington seized the moment and almost miraculously had his entire army of 9,500 whisked off the island by waiting fishermen from Marblehead, Massachusetts, commanded by Col. John Glover. Washington bravely remained on the island to the very end before embarking on the last boat to Manhattan. Everyone had vanished within six hours.

It would be the closest moment to defeat for the American Revolution."