Greenville VFW Post 3175 - Port Jervis NY

06/14/2026

And, as promised, Karoke & Open Mic night. Wednesdays. 6-10pm.
Free and open to the public. I will be playing and singing as well. God help you.

06/14/2026

***STORYTELLING CONTEST***

Everybody has a story, but for this contest, we want your best story that includes VFW Post 3175.

Maybe it happened at the bar. Maybe it was at an event. Maybe it was a meeting, a fundraiser, a dance night, a kitchen moment, a parking lot conversation, or one of those “you had to be there” nights that somehow became Post legend.

Post your best VFW Post 3175 story in the comments below and let the crowd decide.

The winner receives one of my personal challenge coins. The winner is determined by engagement: reactions, comments, and shares on your story.

Contest runs now through 30 June.

Best part? You can vote as many times as you want. React to a story. Comment on it. Share it. Come back and do it again. Around here, democracy has a refresh button.

So here’s the game: don’t just tell a great story. Tell one people want to react to, laugh at, share, remember, and vote for.

Think of this post as the ballot box. Your story is your campaign speech. The people decide.

Drop your VFW Post 3175 story below and let’s see who can light up the room.

06/13/2026

Trivia Night has begun! 🤷🫡

06/13/2026

Its Saturday night! Greenville, Wantage, Minisink, West Town, and PJ come out and play! We're open 6-10pm.
Tonight: we got trivia!

1316 US Route 6
Port Jervis, NY 12771

06/13/2026

This is tonight! Saturday 13 June. We've got prizes and the AC is working (again). Come out and use your big brain to ascertain, entertain, and obtain. Cackling Crow Entertain and David Bailey is working hard to bring comedy nights back to our VFW, but tonight, he's your trivia guru. Stop by because admission is free.

And yes, for the 976th time, we're open to the public. 🤷😆🫡

06/12/2026

06/12/2026

Where are you? We got like 40 people in here but we can fit 40 more. This is going on now! Stop on by.

06/12/2026

"The Great VFW Goose Rescue of 2026!"

About three or four weeks ago, two geese showed up in the VFW parking lot. Not passing through. Not visiting. Just… living there.

They would sit right in the middle of the parking lot like they owned the place, eventually wander off, then come right back. They had no real fear of cars or people unless you approached them directly, and they would take food. It became pretty clear these two were likely dumped there by someone who didn’t want them anymore.

Wednesday night, right in the middle of our Todd Taylor entertainment night, Constable Chris Hatfield walked in. I know Chris from the Army and around town. He came over and asked me about the geese. I told him what I knew.

He asked, “Are you planning to do anything about them?”

I told him I had joked about taking them home and letting them join my flock out by the pond.

Chris smiled and said, “You want to do it now?”

So naturally, because this is apparently who we are now, we launched a full-scale goose-wrangling operation in the middle of Wednesday night entertainment.

We managed to catch one pretty easily, got it safely caged, and I brought it home. By early Thursday morning, that goose had already integrated into my flock like it had been there all along.

The second goose, however, escaped across the street and hid near the pond.
I have a camera on the front of the VFW that overlooks the parking lot, so Thursday became a very professional and dignified day of me checking the camera approximately 27 times to see if the other goose had returned.

Nothing.

Then today, on my way back from Matamoras, PA, I stopped at the VFW on a whim.

And there it was.

The second goose, sitting right in the middle of the parking lot again, probably wondering why the rescue party was running behind schedule.

While I was rallying my Army, which included my wife, Chris, and a few others, two other cars stopped to ask about the goose. Both were happy to help. That is the kind of community we love to see.
We got the second goose safely caught, caged, and brought home.

When she saw her mate and my other geese, she walked out of the cage, started honking, and immediately settled in like, “Finally. Took you people long enough.”
All’s well that ends well. The geese are safe, reunited, and now part of the flock.

But seriously, please stop dumping unwanted animals in our parking lot.
That’s not kindness. That’s not solving a problem. That’s making your problem someone else’s, and it puts the animals at risk.

If you can’t care for an animal, reach out to a rescue, a farm, animal control, or someone who can help.

Don’t dump them at the VFW.

Unless they’re bringing a DD-214 and paying dues, we are not accepting walk-in poultry. 🪿🪿