©By Larry Hume (VFW Post 8904)

Every Veteran Has a Story: Pvt. Elbert Alvie Williford

May 3, 2024 - Elbert Alvie was born on New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1st, 1897, the same year Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope [first movie projector]. His birthplace was the far east Texas town of Center, which serves as Shelby's county seat. His parents, Arella Margaret McGee, and Alva King Williford, raised a large family of seven boys and six girls on a Joaquin and Center Road farm.

National Vietnam War Veterans Day

March 19, 2024 - The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 was signed into law by 45th US President Donald J. Trump, designating every March 29th as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. On March 29, 1973, 51 years ago, the last US Combat Troops departed Vietnam, and Hanoi released the last of its acknowledged prisoners of war.

VFW Ceremony to Honor Those Who Served in Operation Allied Force

March 1, 2024 - 25 years ago, on March 24, 1999, NATO launched an air campaign called “Operation Allied Force” to halt the humanitarian devastation that was then unfolding in Kosovo. The decision to intervene followed more than a year of fighting within the province and the failure of international efforts to resolve the conflict by diplomatic means.

NATO announced the suspension of the air campaign on June 10, 1999, once it had concluded a military technical agreement with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Operation Desert Storm Remembrance Program This Wednesday

February 26, 2024 - On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation of coalition forces from 34 nations to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. When the war ended on February 28th, 1991, 148 Americans had died in battle.

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