©By Larry Hume (VFW Post 8904)

Beirut Barracks Bombing Remembrance

October 20, 2025 - On Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, at 0622 hours, two truck bombs detonated by suicide bombers struck a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that housed 300 service members of the Multination Force during a peacekeeping operation in the Lebanese Civil War.  Killed were 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the US Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Women in Service Observance

October 13, 2025 - Women in the military have a history that extends over 400 years into the past throughout a large number of cultures and nations. World Wars I and II saw over 362,000 American women serving during wartime. Today, women make up 16% of the US military enlisted, and 19% of the officer corps, and their roles have changed significantly over the years from clerical duties to ground combat soldiers to fighter pilots.

POW, MIA Recognition Day 2025

September 15, 2025 - The United States National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed across the nation on the third Friday of September each year. Americans take the time to remember those who are or were at one time Prisoners of War (POW) and those who are still Missing in Action (MIA), as well as their families. National POW/MIA Recognition Day is not a federal public holiday in the United States, but it is a national observance.

Flags at Half Staff Alert

September 11, 2025 - The President has issued a proclamation that the flags of the United States and those flying with it, be at half staff until sunset, September 14, 2025 as a mark of respect for the memory of Charlie Kirk.

Your flags should now be at half staff in honor of Patriot's Day (9/11).

If you have a flag that cannot be lowered, respect can be shown by tying a black ribbon or cord to the top of the mast.

Patriot Day Half-Staff Alert

September 8, 2025 - In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year in memory of those killed that day in 2001.

US Flags and other flags flying with it should be lowered to half-staff at Sunup on Thursday, September 11, 2025, and raised at sundown the same day. It is permissible to lower them the evening before on September 10.

If you have outdoor flags that cannot be lowered, respect for the day can be shown by tying a black cord or ribbon to the top of the mast.

VFW Post 8904 Remembers September 11, 2001

September 5, 2025 - Those who we lost on September 11, 2001, will forever hold a cherished place in our hearts and in the history of our nation. By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001, (Public Law 107-89), Congress authorized the president to designate September 11 of each year as "Patriot Day" to perpetuate the memory of those who perished in the attack on America and to pursue peace and justice in the world and security at home.

In Honor of the Victims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fly Flags At Half-staff

August 28, 2025 - By order of a Presidential Proclamation and in Honor of the Victims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, please lower your U.S. Flags and all other flags flying with it to half-staff immediately until sunset, Sunday, August 31, 2025. If you have an outdoor flag that cannot be lowered, respect can be shown by tying a black ribbon or cord to the top of the mast. 

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