[ASA Vet]

Assuming you mean VVA. I went to the first 3 meetings in my county. The first was to organize. The 2nd and 3rd were actual meetings as the charter had been issued.

The 2nd had some asshole pretending to hypnotize the entire group to "relieve us of our guilt feelings."

The 3rd had a guest speaker from some commie anti military group. I never went back. I don't know if they still exist here.

I am a life member of both the VFW and DAV. I don't go to the halls, as I will not expose myself to cancer sticks.

[laplata]

I don’t blame you. I’d bet they’re not in existence now.

I went to a VA healthcare info meeting at a VFW about a year ago and no smoking was allowed inside.

[Tammy8]

My oldest daughter had her wedding reception at a VFW, no smoking other than on an outside patio area. I am pretty sure most are non-smoking now. We have only been a handful of times over the years.

The VFW closest to us was trying hard to get my husband to be active a few years ago; finally the guy trying so hard to get him to become involved admitted they needed people to drive older veterans to their doctor visits. That is nice and all but he was not welcomed by them when he came back from Vietnam so it seemed pretty lame that they wanted him so bad so he could drive for the older vets that did not want him. We are not spring chickens ourselves and we both have our own doctor appointments to get to.