lol, I don’t recall for sure, but yeah, I’m sure there are a dis-proportionate number of them....
Our VFW had no common grunts who drove trucks or bulldozers, no dental assistants, nothing like that, just war heroes with a million stories to tell to anyone willing to pay for their next round of Budweiser.
Our VFW has more M65 jackets than the local army surplus. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a guy in the Legion wear a field jacket or combat boots to spaghetti dinner or casino night.
Not trying to knock it, but I gave up wearing that stuff the day I got home. I will humbly wear a dress uniform for a parade or a wake/funeral if required, but I’m not the type to sit at a bar and wear fatigues, which seems to be the required dress code at our VFW (that or a leather biker vest is a close 2nd).
It sounds encouraging. We have a local post that meets in a National Guard armory, I think I’ll check out their next meeting to see what it’s like.
I’d have to ask them, but I’ve not seen any of our AL members in uniform. The caps, yes. I too have one. We wear them at our meetings (those of us who hold office), and all members wear them for public events, or at post special functions such as our installation and Christmas banquets.
Even at our installation banquet last year, the division and state officials who attended did not wear uniforms.
LOL! Thanks. Funny stories. A bar full of Audie Murphys.
A relative served and someone asked him why he never went to the VFW and he said some things like that. Lots of boozers.
The thing that really enraged me is the fake Vietnam Vets detailed in that book Stolen Valor which talked about fakes getting benefits and making Vets look bad. I made 2000 + get out the vote calls for Bush. The main reason is because Kerry is a scum and what he did after he got back from his 6 months in Nam. Self promoting lefty and Kennedy shill.
He got his Kennedy admiral connections to get him in the local coast guard boat gig. Then somebody in the USN changed the mission on those boats to upriver work. Kerry must have had a heart attack that day. What a creep he is.