Our local Posts are already in your community, and sometimes, they need a little help from the community. From planning community stand downs for homeless vets to visiting Jewish veterans in the hospital, our Posts need help from volunteers to help them provide services to veterans and military personnel. Here are just a few examples of ways you can help:
- Creating care packages for veterans in the hospital. Your local post can bring them to veterans in the hospital and in nursing homes around the country.
- Helping sponsor an Oneg Shabbat for Jewish troops in training. Some of our posts make quarterly trips to basic training and other military bases in order to host Oneg Shabbats for troops.
- Help flag Jewish military graves on Memorial Day. JWV posts get out to their local cemeteries during Memorial Day in order to clean the graves of our fallen heroes. They will place an American flag on the graves of any Jewish soldier. A lot of our posts will bring their local scouting troop, school, or synagogue to help clean the graves.
If you are interested in volunteering with JWV, please let us know at jwv@jwv.org! We are happy to put you in touch with a post in your local area. Thank you for helping us help veterans.
![JWV Salutes “Old Glory” on Flag DayToday, June 14th is National Flag Day, when we commemorate the flag’s official adoption on June 14, 1777; a day to honor and show respect to the Stars & Stripes and what it represents.President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14th as Flag Day in 1916, “The anniversary of the day upon which the flag of the United States [became] the emblem of the Union."The flag’s design has been officially modified 26 times since 1777, adding stars as new states joined the Union. President Eisenhower ordered the current 50-star version in 1959 when Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states.Title 4 of the U.S. Code sets out rules for the display and handling the flag. While it carries no penalties for private citizens, it’s considered the standard of respect owed to the national emblem. Veterans organizations, scouting groups, and civic leaders
urge families to brush-up on the basics of flag etiquette.
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