Mission: VFW Post 3063 is a home for veterans, we are a service-oriented organization that fosters camaraderie, supports our membership, veterans, their families, and our community. We advocate for Seattle veterans of overseas conflicts.
Vision: VFW Post 3063 promotes a community where veterans and their families are honored and respected, ensuring they receive their earned entitlements and recognition. We foster camaraderie among a diversity of veterans, support their reintegration, engage in community service and patriotism, while remaining adaptive to changing times.
Core Values:
Service
Camaraderie
Family
Community
Home
Patriotism
Diversity
Honor
Independence
Adaptive
Strategic Plan:
This strategic plan outlines VFW Post 3063’s strategy and priorities, reflecting the Post’s current position and the challenges it faces. It clarifies the Post’s goals, financial standing, membership strength, and community engagement, serving as a comprehensive roadmap to transform the vision for serving veterans and the community into a reality.
Who We Are (from vfw.org):
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a nonprofit veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, guard and reserve forces.
We trace our roots back to 1899 when veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) founded local organizations to secure rights and benefits for their service. Many arrived home wounded or sick. There was no medical care or veterans’ pension for them, and they were left to care for themselves.
In their misery, some of these veterans banded together and formed organizations that would eventually band together and become known as the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. After chapters were formed in Ohio, Colorado and Pennsylvania, the movement quickly gained momentum. Today, membership stands at more than 1.4 million members of the VFW and its Auxiliary.
Our voice was instrumental in establishing the Veterans Administration, development of the national cemetery system, in the fight for compensation for Vietnam vets exposed to Agent Orange and for veterans diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome. In 2008, we won a long-fought victory with the passing of a GI Bill for the 21st Century, giving expanded educational benefits to America’s active duty service members, and members of the guard and reserves, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. We were the driving force behind the Veterans Access and Accountability Act of 2014, and continually fight for improved VA medical centers services for women veterans. The VFW’s legislative advocacy efforts were also the driving force behind the passage of the 2019 Blue Water Navy Veteran Act, and the passage of the 2022 Honoring Our PACT Act, which the VFW considers one of the most significant pieces of veterans legislation in history.
Besides helping fund the creation of the Vietnam, Korean War, World War II and Women in Military Service memorials, in 2005 the VFW became the first veterans’ organization to contribute to building the new Disabled Veterans for Life Memorial, which opened in November 2010. And in 2015, we became the first supporter of the Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial which broke ground in July of 2022.
We have many programs and services that work to support veterans, service members and their families, as well as communities worldwide. Please check out our latest fact sheet or spend some time browsing our site to learn why No One Does More For Veterans.