VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA

The VFW was established to assist veterans. Our mission is to foster camaraderie amoung the United States Veterans of overseas conflicts and to serve our veterans, the military and our communities and advocate on behalf of all veterans. The purposes of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States are fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship amoung its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their surviving spouses and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the government of the United States of American freedom, and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies.