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WELCOME TO CAPTAIN STEPHEN T SCHOONMAKER POST

Teamwork ~ Leadership ~ Commitment
As yesterday's defenders of freedom, we want to welcome today's military service members into our ranks to become part of our elite group.  Our common bond is the battlefield, whether it is service in the Persian Gulf, Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo, the war on terrorism or peace-keeping expeditionary campaigns. Your courage and sacrifice have made a difference in preserving and defending world peace.
 

 Commander's Challenge February 2021 Commander-in-Chief Hal Roesch has laid down a challenge to all VFW Posts for the month of February 2021! This month is one where we all focus on love and commitment, and so we’re challenging our Posts to get our members to make a Lifetime commitment to the VFW by becoming Life Members! For this month’s Commander’s Challenge, the top Post in each Division with the highest total of new Life members, meaning a new, continuous, or lapsed member paying the full Life Membership dues will receive a $1000 award deposited into their Post account. In addition, if the top Post also shares this challenge on your Posts Facebook page, they will receive an additional $250 award! Get the word out and let’s increase our Life Membership! We want to see our Posts reaching out to our members and working hard to show that we are an active and progressive organization that has 20/20 VISION FOR VETERANS! This contest will compare the Post’s total members reinstated from close of business January 31st through close of business on February 28th. Members processed through the Online Membership System before close of business will be processed that day; membership applications sent in via fax or mail will be processed when received. To view the current standings, click here.

 
 

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A Brief History of CaptainStephen T. Schoonmaker Post 1429,

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

The Post was instituted in the basement of St. Anastasia's Church, February 23rd., 1926.

Late in 1926 a resolution was passed calling upon the Township Committee to appoint a Patriotic Observance Committee, which Committee was approved and has taken charge of all official holiday observances since. Teaneck's Independence Day observance under the supervision of this committee has attracted the largest assemblages of citizens for several years, gathering anywhere in the county.

In 1927 through the co-operation of the Township Committee, the Plaza at the Municipal Building was officially named Veterans Plaza at the request of Schoonmaker Post.

The same year through the co-operation of local developers streets were name in honor of Dr. James Wallage Beveridge, first member of the Post to pass to his eternal reward; Captain Stephen T. Schoonmaker; and several local boys who had been killed in action during the World War. These streets are in Argonne Park.

In 1928 the Post erected a memorial and planted a tree on the municipal grounds in honor of Dr. Beveridge. Each year thereafter a ceremonial has been conducted at this monument on Memorial Day, Armistice Day and other memorial occasions.

April 6th., 1929, Captain Stephen T. Schoonmaker Post dedicated the monumental flag staff at the new Teaneck High School, in the presence of leading citizens of Bergen County.

In February 1930, the Post dedicated its present Clubhouse, the most outstanding landmore in the Township of Teaneck.

Each year, it will be seen, Captain Stephen T. Schoonmaker Post No. 1429, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has essayed some work of a patriotic and lasting nature.

In addition to community patriotic endeavors, the Post has since its institution maintained a Relief Fund. This fund has been supported by poppy sales prior to Memorial Day. Over one thousand dollars has been expended for veteran relief under the administration of members of the Post.

The Post has participated actively in State and National Encampments and has been honored by elective recognition, in the County, State and Nation. It has promoted Patriotic contests; Scout and School patriotic endeavors.

A Post Bed has been maintained since 1928 for the combined use of the Post and Ladies Auxiliary, at Holy Name Hospital. This fund is raised and maintained independetly of the Relief Fund. The latter fund is administered without regard to affiliation with the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

A Ladies Auxiliary was formed May 21st., 1926, and this unit has been associated in every subsequent activity of the Post.

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As yesterday's defenders of freedom...

 ...we want to welcome today's military service members into our ranks to become part of our elite group.

WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, Kosovo, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, War on Global Terror and other Peace-Keeping Expeditionary Campaigns throughout the globe.

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. -  William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."
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Robert E. Lee

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13

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VFW Commemorates National Vietnam War Veterans Day

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and for our nation, National Vietnam War Veterans Day is an important on...

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VFW Announces Top Teachers in National Contest

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That the purpose of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational: to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead; and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies.
 
 

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