READER’SVOICE


This is the space for comments regarding your VFW Auxiliary Magazine. Mail your submissions to National Headquarters or email them to info@vfwauxiliary.org, marked “Letter to the Editor.” We reserve the right to edit letters for length and clarity.


I read the letter from the


member who was upset by the choice of no longer supporting the cancer campaign (May edition of VFW Auxiliary Magazine). I thought years ago that we should have been doing more fi nancially for our veterans because they were becoming more and more in need of our services and we all know what those problems were and still are. It’s not enough to shake a hand and say thank you. In the meantime, the cancer crusade has raised


Auxiliary LADIES VFW L A D I E S A U X I L I A R Y V F W M A G A Z I N E • M AY 2 0 1 5 Happy Anniversary!


billions of dollars from all different sources; making it one of the most-funded services nationwide. My problem is: Where are the results, where are the answers? As she said, cancer numbers are not diminishing in spite of all the money. It is more gratifying that our veterans, who are really suffering in so many ways, get the results of all we can give them, for that’s what we are about.


Joella Dawkins Auxiliary 9755, Washington, D.C.


Auxiliary LADIES VFW LADIES AUXILIARY VFW MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 2015 “OUT OF A MILLION SOLDIERS” Initially, my eyes were


fi xed on the artwork on the front cover of my September edition of the VFW Auxiliary Magazine – under it was the caption, “Out of a Million Soldiers”... I knew what that meant. Thinking that perhaps it would not be included


or printed, I thumbed through the pages looking November 2015 | 5


WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! We all belong to this great organization


because we are passionate about serving veterans, active-duty military and their families. We welcome and value your comments, suggestions and questions. Please email your letters to the Editor


to info@vfwauxiliary.org, marked “Letter to the Editor,” or send them to VFW Auxiliary Magazine, 406 W. 34th St., 10th Fl., Kansas City, MO, 64111.


for the Dates/Deadlines Page, and joyfully, I found what I was searching for. I am grateful that those in leadership with the


VFW Auxiliary and with the magazine chose to add to the listing of these signifi cant dates – Labor Day, Patriot Day, Constitution Day, National POW/ MIA Day and others – September 27, Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day. On July 16, 2011, my son’s Blue Star turned to


Gold and I became a Gold Star Mother as my only son, U.S. Army Cpl. Frank R. Gross, gave his life in service of our nation, Operation Enduring Freedom. It is with gratitude to the Auxiliary leadership that 6,000-plus U.S. Gold Star families are acknowledged and honored through the simple act of publishing this date in our VFW Auxiliary Magazine.


Toni Gross Auxiliary 10167, Holiday, Fla. Chapter President American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. Tampa Bay/Oldsmar, Fla.


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