VFW Post 8870 - Edmonds, WA

ssues the VFW is there — “honoring the dead by helping the living.”

At every meeting the preamble of the VFW’s Congressional Charter is recited. This is a constant reminder of our mission and our focus as a veterans’ organization:

The purpose of this corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies, whomsoever.