Your Post is in great need of reducing costs. We currently spend over $9500 each year to distribute newsletters. We need your support to reduce our operating expenses. One of the ways we can save hundreds of dollars each month is to send our monthly newsletter to you electronically via e-mail. Please notify us whether you wish to receive the newsletter by e-mail free of charge or pay an annual fee of $12.00 to continue receiving the newsletter via US Mail. If you do not notify us, you may not receive the newsletter.
Use of e-mail also allows us to communicate with you more often to keep you abreast of events in the Post. Please contact us at webmaster@VFWPost2503.org and provide your name, street address and e-mail address so that we can add you to our e-mail list.
VFW Post 2503 now has wireless access to the internet. The instructions for accessing the network are contained here and are also available at the Post. The password for accessing the WI-FI is available at the Post. A computer is available in the Post bar area for all to access the internet.
In a stirring tribute to mark Memorial Day each year, all available soldiers of the elite 3rd U.S. Infantry (known as The Old Guard) gather at Arlington National Cemetery to perform a special task. Just before the Memorial Day weekend, they place American flags, one foot and centered, in front of the gravestones and columbarium niches of every service member buried or inurned at Arlington Cemetery.
This tradition of honor, known as Flags-in, has taken place ever since 1948 when The Old Guard was appointed as the ceremonial unit for the U.S. Army. During the Memorial Day weekend, members of The Old Guard patrol the cemetery to make sure each gravesite remains decorated and honored with a flag. In addition, sentinels for the Tomb of the Unknowns place flags at each of the unknown servicemen graves.
The flags are removed after the three-day Memorial Day weekend.
VFW Post 2503 performs a 'Flags In" at Mt Hope Cemetery each year. You are invited to assist us to perform this memorial to fallen veterans.
VFW Post 2503 and American Legion Post 112 members will be placing flags and crosses on veterans graves at Mt Hope Cemetery, 78th & Military Road on Saturday May 26th at 12 noon. Volunteers are needed as we place over 1,000 flags on graves. A hammer and screwdriver are appropriate items to bring. Any questions, contact Jerry Hodakowski 402-493-9990.
THANK YOU FOR SERVING !!!
Greetings and welcome to our web site. We welcome your feedback. You may leave your comments in the 'guest book' located at the bottom of each page or contact a Post Officer including myself via the Contact and Information Page. Please enjoy the site as it conveys to you who we are, what we do, and how we contribute to our community.
To members and non-members alike, I extend my hand in friendship and invite you to join us as we make a difference in supporting veterans and contributing to our community. We have ample opportunity within the Post to use your talents to support a wide array of volunteer efforts. Your active involvement in the VFW and Post 2503 is needed to ensure that the contributions to veterans , our community, and the long history and traditions of the Veterans of Foreign Wars continue without interruption.
Our Honor Guard supports many community functions in addition to providing military honors to deceased veterans.
Within our Post, volunteers are the heart of the Post and without them we have an empty building. Without people to volunteer, we cannot survive as a Post. Without volunteers, we cannot provide service to veterans and their families. Many volunteers have given decades of their lives to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to Post 2503 and to their communities and churches.Please congratulate each volunteer for their contributions.If you have not volunteered or can increase the amount of time you can give, please consider doing so.We cannot survive without you.Please contact Your Commander or Quartermaster
Our Community, our Post and our Honor Guard unit are in much need of your support. Won't you consider volunteering your time to assist veterans? Please contact:
Vietnam-era Veterans whose service involved duty on or near the perimeters of military bases in Thailand anytime between February 28, 1961 and May 7, 1975 may have been exposed to herbicides and may qualify for VA benefits.
Day is done, gone the sun, From the hills, from the lake, From the sky. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Go to sleep, peaceful sleep, May the soldier or sailor, God keep. On the land or the deep, Safe in sleep.
Love, good night, Must thou go, When the day, And the night Need thee so? All is well. Speedeth all To their rest.
Fades the light; And afar Goeth day, And the stars Shineth bright, Fare thee well; Day has gone, Night is on.
Thanks and praise, For our days, 'Neath the sun, Neath the stars, 'Neath the sky, As we go, This we know, God is nigh.
It is the VETERAN, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the VETERAN, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble. It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the VETERAN, not the politician, Who has given us the right to vote. It is theVETERAN who salutes the Flag. It is the VETERAN who serves under the Flag.
