Veterans of Foreign Wars | Sights and Sounds of the 2023 VFW Legislative Conference @VFWHQ | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
More than 400 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary converged on the nation’s capital last week, for the annual four-day Legislative Conference March 5 - 9. Delegates from all 50 states met with their respective members of Congress to press upon them the need to support veterans, service members and military families.
“It is great to be back in D.C. for a full in-person legislative conference,” said VFW National Commander Tim Borland. “After years of pandemic restrictions, we are finally able to walk the halls of Congress and deliver our petitions face-to-face with our elected officials.”
Also returning to Washington, D.C., was the VFW’s Voice of Democracy Parade of Winners. Each year, nearly 25,000 ninth through 12th grade students from across the country enter a democratic and patriotic-themed essay to win their share of more than $2 million in educational scholarships and incentives awarded through the program. The national first place winner receives a $35,000 scholarship paid directly to the recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school. This year's winner grand prize winner was Scotland Stewart, a sophomore at Franklin County High School in Winchester, Tennessee, sponsored by VFW Post 1893 in Estill Springs, Tennessee.
One of the culminating events of the conference was the commander-in-chief’s testimony on March 8 at 10 a.m. (EST) before a special joint hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs held at the Cannon House Office Building.
See more about the 2023 Legislative Conference at vfw.org/VFWDC2023.
More than 400 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary converged on the nation’s capital last week, for the annual four-day Legislative Conference March 5 - 9. Delegates from all 50 states met with their respective members of Congress to press upon them the need to support veterans, service members and military families.
“It is great to be back in D.C. for a full in-person legislative conference,” said VFW National Commander Tim Borland. “After years of pandemic restrictions, we are finally able to walk the halls of Congress and deliver our petitions face-to-face with our elected officials.”
Also returning to Washington, D.C., was the VFW’s Voice of Democracy Parade of Winners. Each year, nearly 25,000 ninth through 12th grade students from across the country enter a democratic and patriotic-themed essay to win their share of more than $2 million in educational scholarships and incentives awarded through the program. The national first place winner receives a $35,000 scholarship paid directly to the recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school. This year's winner grand prize winner was Scotland Stewart, a sophomore at Franklin County High School in Winchester, Tennessee, sponsored by VFW Post 1893 in Estill Springs, Tennessee.
One of the culminating events of the conference was the commander-in-chief’s testimony on March 8 at 10 a.m. (EST) before a special joint hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs held at the Cannon House Office Building.
See more about the 2023 Legislative Conference at vfw.org/VFWDC2023.
