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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
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Subject: Re: The V *F* W
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 20:02:22 EDT
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> > Anyone know why the emphasis on *Foreign* in the name of the organization
> > 
> > "The Veterans of Foreign Wars"?
> > ... 
> > 
> > Will Martin
> 
> I thought that VFW members had to serve *overseas* during a foreign
> conflict.  (Nam and Korea count.  Grenada and Lebanon don't seem to.)
> The American Legion takes all veterans.
> -- 
> 
> 	Bill Mansfield
> 	AT&T Information Systems, Naperville, IL
> 	{ihnp4!}ihuxb!wfmans

>>>>> The rule is that a person has to be in a declared war zone
for a certain number of days. I believe 181. While nam and Korea
were not declared wars like Grenada and Lebanon, their length
forced Congress to make them war zones.

I belong to the VFW and I think I made the right pick cause the
VFW is the only vets outfit that took the vets view on 
agent orange.

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