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September questions: should VFW extend eligibility to overseas Cold War veterans?(Sound off: views of VFW members on topics of interest to veterans.)

Publication: VFW Magazine
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04
Format: Online - approximately 709 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
No effort should be made to ammend VFW bylaws to admit overseas Cold War veterans. Membenhip should be restricted to veterans who have been awarded a campaign medal for a foreign war.

Joseph T. McCulley, Tennessee

Though I was stationed in Korea (1964-65 and '81-'88) myself, I also I...

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...did not agree that those who served there should have been eligible based solely on the VFW's 1995 bylaw change. Besides Vietnam, served in Germany (1970-73) and Greece (1977-78), but I still think eligibility should not be extended to Cold War veterans.

Michael Newton, California

Editor's Note: Several members supported conditional eligibility for Cold War vets....

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