{"id":26043,"date":"2024-08-21T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/veterans-of-foreign-wars-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:03:53","slug":"veterans-of-foreign-wars-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/veterans-of-foreign-wars-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans of Foreign Wars Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024-2025 VFW scholarship for students in grades 6-8 is available contingent upon completing a 300-400 word essay titled \u201cMy Voice in America’s Democracy?\u201d<\/p>\n

An entry form can be found at vfw9517.org under programs, \u201cPatriot’s Pen<\/a>.\u201d Essays must be submitted by Oct. 31. A participating local VFW Post pays $100 to one winner, and the national winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship.<\/p>\n

The 2024-2025 VFW scholarship for high school freshmen through seniors is available contingent on a three-to-five-minute audio and written speech with a title of \u201cIs America Today Our Forefathers’ Vision?\u201d<\/a> The entry form can be found at vfw9517.org under programs, \u201cVoice of Democracy.\u201d Entries must be submitted in by Oct 31. A participating local VFW Post pays $100 to winner. National winner receives a $35,000 scholarship.<\/p>\n

For information, contact Mark Decker at madecker19020@yahoo.com<\/a> or (505) 947-5179.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024-2025 VFW scholarship for students in grades 6-8 is available contingent upon completing a 300-400 word essay titled \u201cMy Voice in America’s Democracy?\u201d An entry form can be found at vfw9517.org under programs, \u201cPatriot’s Pen.\u201d Essays must be submitted by Oct. 31. A participating local VFW Post pays $100 to one winner, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1240,1222,202,799,1241],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aztec","tag-bloomfield","tag-briefs","tag-farmington","tag-kirtland"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26043"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}