VFW Post Makes Push To Recruit Young Vets

Great idea! All service organizations need to step out of their comfort zone and start filling the need zone if they are going to survive and really serve all veterans.

VFW Post Makes Push To Recruit Young Vets
by Melissa Block


October 29, 2009
All around Portland, Ore., Veterans of Foreign Wars posts have closed their doors in recent years as members died and funds dried up.

But this summer, one post in Tualatin, Ore., outside Portland, has made a point to attract young veterans to revitalize membership, including moving out of a dump into a fancy new home.

VFW Post 3452's new hall is full of light with a shiny professional kitchen, granite countertops, a 52-inch flat-screen TV. It's named after a young veteran, Marine Cpl. Matthew Lembke.

Lembke served two tours in Iraq. And he was on foot patrol in Afghanistan this past June when he stepped on an IED. He died of complications several weeks later. He was 22.
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