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- 9News Denver Next with Kyle Clark
A Word of Thanks: Help VFW Post 1 Finish the Veteran Community Center
In honor of Veterans Day, VFW Post 1 was featured on Next with Kyle Clark: Word of Thanks. The Post needs to raise $244,000 to finish renovations and open the Veteran Community Center.
- 9News Denver
Years after getting back their cherished neon sign, VFW Post 1 still hasn't been able to hang it
VFW Post 1, in Denver, was the first Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in the country. That’s part of the reason why some of its oldest members revere the post’s nostalgic neon sign as a piece of Colorado history.
- VFW.org
VFW Magazine selects VFW Post 1 as the #StillServing Post of the Month for May 2021
VFW Post 1 was selected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as the May 2021 #StillServing Post of the Month.
- CBS4 Denver
Denver's VFW Post 1 'Missing Out On Helping People'
VFW Post 1 operates as an art gallery and provides mental health and wellness services to veterans in need.
- Denverite
Denver’s VFW Post 1 is more than a VFW and more than an art gallery
Art is both business and therapy for veterans here.
- 9News Denver
Nation's first-ever VFW doubles as an impressive art gallery for Denver
In keeping with the character of their neighborhood, the VFW 1, on Santa Fe Drive, serves as a venue for art.
- The Denver Post
Actress Ann-Margret in Denver to receive VFW lifetime service award: “I love my guys”
Singer-actress Ann-Margret, 75, circled back Sunday night, dining and conversing at the Brown Palace Hotel with 400 war veterans and their families…
- 9News Denver
Original neon sign from Denver's VFW Post 1 found and restored
You’d think a 15-foot neon sign, like the one that hung outside of VFW Post 1, couldn’t go missing. But it did.
- Military Times
Vision for a new VFW: To see the future, look to the past
If you want to know about the future of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Marine veteran John Holland will take you to a graveyard.
- CBS4 Denver
Astronaut Scott Kelly Inducted Into VFW Post #1 On Its 116th Founders Banquet From Space
The Atlas 5 Rocket, made by Colorado’s United Launch Alliance, took off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday to bring vital supplies to the International Space Station.
- The Denver Post
First VFW in America serves Thanksgiving meal to vets and homeless in Denver The Denver Post
Marine veteran Kyle Kelly lost his left leg just above the knee because of deteriorating health symptoms he attributes to Gulf War Syndrome…
- The New York Times
A Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Denver Trades Beer for a Sun Salute
DENVER — At a meeting in the country’s oldest Veterans of Foreign Wars post, a Marine began by asking members to close their eyes and inhale.
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Next with Kyle Clark: A Word of Thanks
In honor of Veterans Day, VFW Post 1 was featured on Next with Kyle Clark:...
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Mission Accomplished: Last Minute GI Working Party Saves $5K
Previous Next As we’ve seen time and time again, VFW Post 1 members and volunteers...
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VFW Post 1 Veterans Community Center Renovations Underway
Previous Next The long-awaited first renovation phase of the VFW Post 1’s Veteran Community Center...
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