Community Highlights

Texas VFW Post 8526, Rio Grande City

Commander Mark Olivarez speaks with Ms. Iris Garza’s 5th grade Social Studies class at John and Olive Hinojosa Elementary on October 26, 2021, about the Remembrance of the Beirut Bombing and the lives lost that day. On Saturday, August 28, 2021, Commander Brandon Buttram conducted a community service involving Youth and Americanism. The service consisted of cleaning/restoring one of Hughes-Tune Post’s namesake headstones. Sam W. Tune was killed in action during WWI, and is currently interred at a local cemetery in Valley View, Texas. The Post Commander’s two sons, Brandon Jr. (18), and Dylan (13), cleaned the headstone and polished the tarnished brass VFW emblem.

Texas VFW Post 4006, Navasota

Past Post Commander Carl Dry teaches children from the Pocahontas Society of the Children of the American Revolution (CAR) on flag etiquette, including proper folding procedures.

Texas VFW Post 7104, Brenham

Member Darryl McNabb assisted the local Wells Fargo Bank in retiring a flag and putting up a new one.

Texas VFW Post 2427, Tomball

The Pos’s Honor Guard CDR renders a salute while conducting a Flag Retirement & POW/MIA Table Ceremony at the “Cooking for Courage” Cook Off Competition, November 12-13, 2021, at Unity Park Magnolia, Texas.