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In 1947, a group of veterans who had returned from places like Omaha Beach, Japan, Italy, Africa, Normandy, and various other places around the world. Their objective was in forming a VFW to help themselves and many more veterans in the community. This would give them the help and support that they needed to get the rights and benefits they had fought for. This included things like the ability to buy a home, return to school or get the medical help they needed.

These meeting consisted of men like Wilson Harper, Garnett and Gifford Turner, Alonzo Yankey and Forest ‘Speck’ Fulk, just to name a couple, who wanted the VA benefits they earned while fighting for world peace. These men came from communities like Bergton, Criders, Fulks Run, Broadway, Timberville and all the little communities in between. Speck Fulk is the only surviving member of the post charter. He turned 104 in October.

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