WWW.VFWPOST10904.COM
~ All American Post~
~ All State Post ~
~ National Community Service Post~
~ National Destination Post~
130 Shelton Road
Established:
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Our Motto:
Kimberly King
Donald Purinton
Manchester, TN 37355
8 January 1990
Monthly Meetings:
6 pm / 18:00
Second Monday of each month
Coffee County Veterans Building
130 Shelton Road; Manchester, TN
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"We are NOT your average VFW Post!"
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Commander
(251)-554-8836
Email: flygal46@yahoo.com
Senior Vice Commander
County Veterans Service Officer
(931)-581-5422
Email: ccvso1@coffeecountytn.org
This site was last updated: 6 October 2024
For those who wish to continue service to our great country...
The Mission of the VFW
we would love to have you as a member of our Post!
The VFW was established to assist veterans. Our mission is to foster camaraderie among U.S. veterans
of overseas conflicts and to serve our veterans, the military and our community. We advocate on behalf of all veterans.
The purposes of the VFW are patriotic, fraternal, historical, charitable and educational.
To preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members and to assist worthy comrades.
To perpetuate the memory and history of our dead and to assist their surviving spouses and orphans.
To maintain true allegiance to the United States and fidelity to its institutions of freedom
and to preserve and defend the United States from all enemies.
Click Here for a complete list of all Programs the VFW offers.
We encourage and welcome all qualifying veterans to join our Post
and support our veterans, our families, and our country.
Post contact information, as well as qualifying information, is listed below.
This short but fantastic video, describes what we do at our Post, and in the community.
Created, designed and written by Lamar Wilkie;
Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer and
Post Adjutant.
Congratulations Post and Auxiliary!!
Congratulations to all Post and Auxiliary members for earning the
VFW National All-American Award
6 times consecutively
VFW Department of TN, All-State Award
7 times consecutively
VFW National Dept of TN (State) Community Service Award
3 times consecutively
A noted historical achievement for any VFW Post.
VFW Post Monthly Meeting
13 October 2024
Join us for our Post monthly meeting at the Coffee County Veterans Building on 13 October
with dinner served at 6 pm followed by our meetings.
All veterans and their families, are welcome to attend.
The address is:
Coffee County Veterans Building
130 Shelton Road
Manchester, TN
Designed for our smallest friends, age 12 and under.
Come and join us in the back yard for
some Halloween fun.
Details to follow. Runs from 6 to 8 pm only.
VFW Monthly Fundraiser Breakfast
Please join us Saturday, 26 October 2024, for our monthly fundraiser breakfast. This is the primary way that we raise funds for our many events, projects,
Thank you to Humana, who is sponsoring the breakfast!
So, please come and join us for breakfast served with smiles and for a great cause.
Take out is available!
26 October 2024
programs and help we provide to our veterans and their families.
Open to the public!
Join us on 9 November 2024, for our 6th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony
on Manchester square.
Parade entries are now being accepted. Email your info to Commander King at flygal46@yahoo.com
Parade theme for this year is "Honoring the U.S. Army". Parade line up is at 9 am with details to follow.
Parade roll out at 10 am followed by our Veterans Day Ceremony on the square starting at 11 am.
Prizes for the top 3 parade entries.
Registering for the parade is easy. Contact CDR King with the following info:
1. Name of Organization or Group
2. Name of person in charge of the entry
2. Contact Email
3. Contact phone number
4. Description of Entry
{Click on the photo above to take you to the website for this project.}
Any veteran who has any tie to Coffee County, can be included in the project.
Simply submit your veteran photo to CDR King for inclusion.
Photos can be sent in any form via email to flygal46@yahoo.com or text 251-554-8836
or use the QR code above.
All are highly encouraged to participate.
All are welcome!
5 October:
Old Timer's Day Parade and Fair
Kim King and Christie Conlee
19 October:
Halloween at the Post
Fred and Gina Kasper
8 November:
Grundy County Veterans Luncheon
Kim and David King
9 November:
Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony
Jim Dobson
7 December:
Annual Christmas Party
Several Post members
14 December:
Wreaths Across America
Cyndi Clower
Post Officers for 2024 -2025
Welcome to our Newest Members:
Phil Samples
U.S. Air Force
Dirk Johnson
U.S. Navy
Anthony Odom
U.S. Army
Bill Prince
U.S. Air Force
William L. Greene, II
U.S. Air Force
Debra Owens
U.S. Air Force
Gene Clark
U.S. Marines
Dan D. Peterson
U.S. Navy
James F. Holder
U.S. Navy
Richard Anderson
U.S. Air Force
Glen Aussiker
U.S. Coast Guard
Edgar L. Johnson
U.S. Navy
Roy Slaughter
U.S. Army
Conrad Watson
U.S. Army
Patriotic Days We Acknowledge and Cherish
VFW Post 10904 celebrates and honors all patriotic days and events including the following:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 18 Jan
Four Chaplains Day - 3 Feb
National Rosie the Riveter Day - 21 March
National Vietnam War Veterans Day - 29 March
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day- 9 April
Loyalty Day - 1 May
National Military Spouse Appreciation Day - 11 May
Armed Forces Day - 18 May
Memorial Day - 28 May
Flag Day - 14 June
Independence Day - 4 July
American POW's in Hiroshima Killed on the day of the Bombing - 6 August
National Purple Heart Day - 7 August
Patriot Day - 11 Sept
POW/MIA Day - 21 Sept
National VFW Day - 29 Sept
Gold Star Mother's Day - 30 September
Veterans Day - 11 Nov
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - 7 Dec
Operation Joy Music/Comedy Program
Note:
Please contact CDR King for a schedule of Operation Joy events.
Operation Joy is a Bob Hope style music and comedy program we provide
for free to several assisted living centers.
Below are the addresses for the homes we visit each month:
Autumn Oaks Senior Living
1621 McMinnville Hwy
Manchester, TN
Morning Pointe Assisted Living
711 Kings Lane
Tullahoma, TN
Brookdale Assisted Living
801 Wilson Ave
Tullahoma, TN
All are welcome to join us. It's great fun!
Please contact Kimberly King at flygal46@yahoo.com
or phone 251-554-8836 for additional information.
Our Post Awards
VFW National All-American Post
5 years consecutive (2018 - 23)
VFW Department of Tennessee All-State Post
6 years consecutive (2017 - 23)
VFW National Award of Merit
4 awards (2018 - 19 - 22 - 23)
VFW National Post Special Project Award
3 awards (2018 - 21 - 23)
VFW National Membership Award
4 awards (2017 - 22)
VFW National Smart/Maher Teacher's Award
(2018)
VFW Department of Tennessee Community Service Award
2 Awards (2022 - 23)
VFW Department of Tennessee Smart/Maher Teacher's Awards
10 awards (2018 - 2023)
VFW Department of Tennessee Commander's Membership Award
6 awards (2018 - 23)
VFW Department of Tennessee Community Service Awards
6 awards (2018 - 23)
VFW Department of Tennessee Balsom V. Perry Award
2 awards (2021 - 23)
VFW Department of Tennessee Cooper T. Holt Award
Howard Thompson winner
Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration Award
(2018)
Governor's Volunteer Star Award
- Four winners -
Howard Thompson, Claude Morse, Ed Reader, Sr and Andrew Hetrick (Eagle Scout)
Our District Awards include:
Veterans and Military Support Programs Award
6 awards (2017 - 23)
Community Service Award
6 awards (2017 - 23)
Attendance Award
6 awards (2017 - 23)
Citizenship Education Teacher Award
4 awards (2017 - 23)
Outstanding Patriot's Pen Award
4 awards (2017 - 23)
Outstanding Voice of Democracy Award
4 awards (2017 - 23)
Please click Here to view a few photos
of some of our events, projects, members and award winners.
Please click HERE to view information
on becoming a member of our post.
Community Service Programs
Click on the title to access information on the following awards and programs:
These awards include Emergency Medical Technician, Law Enforcement and Firefighter.
Click here for more info:
Public Safety Award Information
Emergency Medical Technician, Law Enforcement or Firefighter Award Submission Form
Click Here to listen to Emily Ezell, elementary school teacher from Cowan Elementary
describe how winning the National VFW Citizenship Education Teacher award changed her life.
Entry form for 2022-2023 VFW Teacher of the Year Award
Smart/Maher VFW Citizenship Education Teacher Award Page 1
Smart/Maher VFW Citizenship Education Teacher Award Page 2
Young American Patriotic Art Contest
Open to students in grades 9-12
Patriots Pen and Voice of Democracy Essay Competitions:
Patriots Pen Essay Contest
Grades 6-8
Rules and Eligibility for the Patriots Pen Essay Contest
Voice of Democracy Essay Contest
Grades 9-12
Rules and Eligibility for the Voice of Democracy Essay Contest
For a complete list of VFW Community Service Programs
please Click Here
Thank you for considering a donation!
Donations made to our Post go strictly to veterans needs, programs or community
charitable organizations we support.
VFW Post and General Links:
VFW Post 10904
Facebook Page
Remember our Fallen Heros in Afghanistan
Photo of our 13 fallen hero's in the recent withdrawl from Afghanistan
(Click on the photo for a larger view of the display)
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Please Click Here to explain our Toy Soldier Project.
Information on the project can be found
at the bottom of the
Vietnam War Facts Website.
Coffee County Veterans Association
Coffee County TN Service Officer
Donald Purinton
American Veteran POW's Killed in Hiroshima
King's Nuclear Weapons Fascinating Facts
VFW Post 10904
Vietnam-Era Veterans Honors Dinner
Veterans Killed in Vietnam From Coffee County - Tennessee
Vietnam-Era Honors Dinner Video; 28 March 2019
Vietnam-Era Honors Day at Manchester Square - March 2018
Filmed by Lamar Wilkie, Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Navy - Retired
Honor Flight of Middle Tennessee
Coffee County Wreaths Across America Facebook Page
For information on the VFW Post 10904
please contact:
Kimberly King
Commander, VFW Post 10904
2658 Gap Road; Altamont, TN 37301
flygal46@yahoo.com
Phone: 251-554-8836 Please email me your questions, comments
or information pertaining to our Post.
Happy to serve!
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