[CodeToad]

“VFW’s are closing by the dozens because there isn’t enough participation”

It’s their own attitude doing that. I went into a VFW in a remote town in Colorado in 1998 with a bunch of veterans who certainly qualify for VFW membership. We were told unless we had Vietnam combat experience that we were not welcome. We left.

[GreyFriar]

Denying membership to those who served overseas in Kuwait/Iraq During Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm does not make sense.

I wonder if that VFW post is telling vets from Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 to ‘go away’? Our local VFW here in rural Indiana isn’t doing that.

[hank ernade]

At my fathers request I went to join VFW in 1970.

Lowlife told me Vietnam wasn’t a declared war and I wasn’t eligible to join.

Never had a thing to do with them after that - let them fade away.

[PROCON]

To qualify for VFW membership you had to serve in a combat zone, period. Combat experience isn't a prerequisite.