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WELCOME TO DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

No one does more for Veterans

 
State Commander
David Staehlin
2024-2025

 
Click here for the VFW Claims Office for VA claims assistance. 
VFW eligibility or membership is not required. Our Claims Office assists veterans for free.


The Department of Minnesota, VFW
serves Minnesota veterans, servicemembers, their families, and our communities.

As yesterday's defenders of freedom, we want to welcome today's military service
members into our ranks to become part of our elite group. Our common bond is
the battlefield, whether it is service in the Persian Gulf, Korea, Kosovo, the
war on terrorism or peace-keeping expeditionary campaigns. Your courage and
sacrifice have made a difference in preserving and defending world peace.

Join us for camaraderie and as we serve each other, all veterans, military servicemembers, their families, and our Minnesota communities. 

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DONATE TO DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

Our programs support our service members while they are on the front line, as they are being discharged and long after they return. Your tax-deductible donation will be immediately directed to the VFW programs where your support is most urgently needed.

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"That the purpose of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational: to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead; and to assist their surviving spouses and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies."

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2025 Veterans Day on the Hill

Set for April 9, 2025 at 10 a.m.

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2025 VFW Podium Edition

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