Jones-Walker VFW Post 4862 and VFW Auxiliary

09/23/2025

09/23/2025

House Passes 14 Veteran Bills: Fourteen bipartisan veteran bills passed the House and now head to the Senate for consideration. They address a range of health care and benefits issues. VFW-supported bills include H.R.3400, TRAVEL Act of 2025, to allow VA physicians to serve temporarily as traveling physicians in territories and possessions of the United States to provide health care services to veterans in underserved areas; H.R.3951, Rural Veterans’ Improved Access to Benefits Act of 2025, to extend license portability allowing eligible health care providers to perform disability examinations across state lines and expanding access for veterans; and H.R.2334, Servicemember Residence Protection Act, to preempt state laws regarding squatter’s rights for premises owned by individuals who are on active military service. Read more.

Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), released the following statement after the House passed 14 bipartisan veterans’ bills this week:

09/23/2025

Today in Military History
September 23;

1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1
1955 Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad
1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1950 US Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed
1949 Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
1942 Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
1932 Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1912 Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)
1864 Battle of Athens VA
1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
1780 Brit Maj John André reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement

09/23/2025

Dates To Remember
September is Su***de Prevention Month

September 23 .... Post Meeting 6pm
September 24 .... GDO 5;30
September 26 .... Karaoke 8pm
September 27 .... Post Members Birthday Party 6pm
September 27 .... Xtreme Bar Bingo
September 28 .... Gold Star Mothers Day.
September 29 .... VFW Day, VFW Est (1899)
October 01 .... GDO 3pm
October 03 .... Karaoke. 8pm
October 04 .... X Treme Bar Bingo 6pm
October 07 .... Afghanistan War Begins (2001)
October 09 .... GDO 3pm
October 10 .... Karaoke. 8pm
October 11 .... X Treme Bar Bingo 6pm
October 12 .... Columbus Day.
October 13 .... Columbus Day Observed
October 16 .... GDO 3pm
October 17 .... Karaoke. 8pm
October 18 .... X Treme Bar Bingo 6pm
October 22 .... GDO 3pm
October 23 .... Grenada Campaign Begins (1983)
October 24 .... Karaoke. 8pm
October 25 .... X Treme Bar Bingo 6pm
October 27 .... Navy Day.
October 30 .... GDO 3pm
October 31 .... Halloween
October 31 .... Karaoke. 8pm
X Treme Bar Bingo Saturdays 6pm.

09/23/2025

Good Morning Patriots
“I pledge all allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

09/23/2025

Are you a student, parent, grandparent or teacher? Then you’ll definitely want to know about the scholarship and contest opportunities the VFW Auxiliary offers student artists from kindergarten through high school!

Go to our website, linked in bio, to learn about our Illustrating America art contest for students K-8, under What We Do - Youth Activities.

Find information about Young American Creative Patriotic Art and 3-Dimensional Patriotic Art contests under the Scholarships & Contests tab.

Also order free Young American Creative Patriotic Art/3-Dimensional Patriotic Art brochures from National Headquarters by emailing info@vfwauxiliary.org. (Access the brochure order form under Scholarships & Contests, too.)