Union City, Tenn.–Kathy Canaday of Union City, Tenn., a member of Jones-Walker VFW Post #4862, is completing her two-year term on the National Council of Administration, which governs the Auxiliary between national conventions. She attended the National Convention in New Orleans recently.
During the convention, National President Colette Bishop commended the 2,000 attendees for all their hard work in honoring veterans and supporting deployed military personnel and their families. Members have spent millions of dollars and volunteer hours helping the heroes of our country.
The National President also thanked members for volunteering nearly one million hours in the nation’s hospitals, and donating $300,000 to VFW Veterans and Military Support Programs, which includes Operation UplinkTM to provide long-distance calling opportunities to deployed soldiers and hospitalized veterans.