Our Leadership
Executive Officers
Paul Palazzolo
President
Mark Spooner
Treasurer
Sid E. Taylor
1st Vice President
David Gurtowsky
Secretary
Joe McClellan
2nd Vice President
Board of Directors
George Adams
Bill Langford
Bill Callahan
John Lauve
R. Mike Sand
Eugene Sullivan
Committee Chairs
Mark Spooner
Public Information Officer
Jack Devine
Director of Legislative Committee, State Council
Irene Spooner
Event Planner
Gudrun Hite
AVVA Representative
CHAPTER NEWS
VFW BLUE WATER NAVY VET WINS FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULING – COURT OF LAW NOW JOINS COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a decade-old ruling yesterday that potentially paves the way for the return of earned disability benefits for some 90,000 so-called Blue Water Navy veterans from the Vietnam War. The case, Procopio v....
DETROIT VIETNAM VETS MOVE FROM WOODWARD HOME
More than 50 years ago, Detroiters who fought in the Vietnam War came home to a hostile America, where veterans wanted to be welcomed home but often met public animosity.That’s one reason why a few of them founded the The Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 9, for...
