When was amvets founded

Each August, representatives from these levels attend the AMVETS national convention to make decisions on issues affecting veterans and the organization. Here, something as simple as playing cards with the lonely or watching television with the disabled can make a world of difference. So can the assistance we give those who want to finish their education. But helping others is not limited to our fellow veterans.

Apart from these initiatives, the organization has thrown its monetary support behind work on such national monuments as the USS. Today female soldiers, seamen and airmen, are serving in or near combat zones in ever increasing numbers, thereby creating unique family separation problems not encountered in other wars and conflicts.

Financial, family and emotional problems as well as Traumatic Brain Injuries TBIs have surfaced in such large numbers that the local National Guard and Reserve units were not prepared to deal with them in the early stages of the war. AMVETS signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU , with the National Guard to provide direct support to our deploying and returning personnel and their families, providing this assistance in their local armories and home units.

These additional commitments have strengthened efforts to assist returning veterans at the time of separation, retirement or release from active federal service through the Transition Assistance Program TAP.

In December, 18 leaders, representing nine groups, met in Kansas City, Missouri. During the administrations of President Lyndon B. The members are involved in preserving freedoms, supporting veterans and active military members, assisting veteran's families, and in promoting and serving in community projects that support the lives of all Americans.

The wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, stepdaughters, and granddaughters of the American Veteran make up the Ladies Auxiliary. All veterans are invited to join. All members are requested to get involved. Overseas the tide of battle was turning. The Allies had swept through North Africa and Sicily.