News about the military and veterans
- VFW announces themes for annual essay contests
- September 27, 2012
- The Kansas VFW’s Voice of Democracy and Patriot Pen programs have kicked off this fall, offering middle school and high school students the opportunity to win scholarships or money for winning entries.
- VFW spaghetti dinner will raise money for Wreaths Across America
- September 25, 2012
- The Basehor VFW will play host to a spaghetti dinner Saturday to help fifth-grade students at Basehor-Linwood Intermediate School raise money for the Wreaths Across America program.
- Veterans share military experiences with students
- September 20, 2012
- Fifth-graders at Basehor-Linwood Intermediate School sat captivated as several local veterans shared their service stories Friday morning.
- GOP picnic set for Saturday
- June 12, 2012
- The Leavenworth County Republican Party will have its annual picnic in the park from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Tonganoxie VFW Park.
- Basehor VFW to present flags at Glenwood Cemetery on Memorial Day
- May 25, 2012
- The Basehor VFW Post 11499 will perform a Memorial Day flag presentation at the Glenwood Cemetery near Basehor.
- Basehor VFW dinner to raise funds for second-grader’s medical costs
- May 8, 2012
- The Basehor VFW Post will have a dinner later this month to benefit the family of Jackson Oberndorfer, the Basehor second-grader who traveled to Boston for brain surgery earlier this year.
- Basehor VFW members give $525 to fifth-graders
- April 27, 2012
- Basehor VFW Post members on Thursday presented Basehor Intermediate School fifth-graders with $525 raised at a spaghetti dinner earlier this month.
- Fort Leavenworth historic tour is May 5
- April 25, 2012
- Many historical homes and famous sites of Fort Leavenworth will be open to the public during the 35th annual Fort Leavenworth Historic Homes Tour 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 5.
- Photos: Basehor veterans give back to fifth-graders
- April 14, 2012
- With a spaghetti dinner on Friday, April 13, the Basehor VFW Post raised money for Basehor Intermediate School fifth-graders’ effort to place wreaths on veterans’ graves at Leavenworth National Cemetery each December.
- Basehor VFW Post dinner to raise funds for fifth-graders’ wreath project
- April 4, 2012
- A little less than a year since Michelle Ablard’s students at Basehor Intermediate School presented the Basehor VFW Post with about $700 to help keep them from losing their building, VFW members are planning to raise money for a gift of their own.
- Soldier being held at Fort Leavenworth charged with 17 murder counts in Afghan killings
- March 23, 2012
- KABUL — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said.
- Lawyer describes talk with Afghan killings suspect held at Fort Leavenworth
- March 19, 2012
- A Seattle lawyer who is defending an Army staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghans, including nine children, met Monday with the soldier for the first time at Fort Leavenworth, a conversation the attorney described as emotional.
- Afghan shooting suspect expected to be brought to Fort Leavenworth
- March 16, 2012
- A senior defense official says the U.S. soldier accused in the killings of 16 Afghan civilians is expected to be flown to the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth as early as Friday.
- Rumsfeld visits Fort Leavenworth
- February 24, 2012
- Donald Rumsfeld recalled his 2001 Secretary of Defense confirmation hearing in which he fielded a question from U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas about what worried him late at night.
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