Youth Scholarship Competitions
Donation for the Young Marines
95th Anniversary Shirt
September 2025
Monday September 8
- 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Auxiliary Meeting65 S MacDonald, Mesa, Arizona 85210, United States
Auxiliary of VFW Post 1760 monthly meeting
Tuesday September 9
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Post Membership MeetingVFW Post 1760 - Mesa (65 S Macdonald, Mesa, AZ 85210, United States)
Monday September 15
- 8:00 am – 8:30 am
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POW / MIA Day
You Are Not Forgotten – that’s the central phrase behind POW/MIA Recognition Day, a day to honor the sacrifices made by America’s prisoners of war, those who are still missing in action and their families.
Many of our service members suffered as prisoners of war during several decades of varying conflicts. While some of them made it home, tens of thousands more never did.
POW/MIA Recognition Day is commemorated on the third Friday of every September, a date that’s not associated with any particular war. In 1979, Congress and the president passed resolutions making it official after the families of the more than 2,500 Vietnam War POW/MIAs pushed for full accountability.
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Thursday September 18
- All Day
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U.S. Air Force Birthday
The official date of the founding of the US Air Force is 18 September 1947. It was a momentous event that over six decades later has demonstrated the achievement of an Air Force second-to-none, yet the Air Force’s history and heritage goes back a lot further.
From the time that the US military purchased its first aircraft in 1909 up to 1947, the US Air Force did not exist as a separate and independent military service organization. It went through a series of designations: Aeronautical Section, Signal Corps (1909); Aviation Section, Signal Corps (1914); United States Army Air Service (1918); United States Army Air Corps (1926), United States Army Air Forces (1941).
WWII illustrated the value of airpower, and the need to change the basic organization of the US Military Forces. The result was the creation of a single Department of Defense with a strong Joint Chiefs of Staff with Army, Navy, and Air Force chiefs. In 1947 President Truman signed the National Security Act which established this new defense organization, and along with it the creation of the US Air Force as an independent service, equal to the US Army and US Navy. The official birthday of the US Air Force is 18 September 1947.
Through the years history has shown the wisdom and foresight of the creation of a separate Air Force. The US Air Force emerged quickly from its cradle and began to create its own history and heritage.
(2018) AIR FORCE BIRTHDAY. Retrieved from https://www.military.com/air-force-birthday
Chartered in 1929, our establishment is one of the five oldest VFW posts in the state of Arizona. Our post’s namesake Corpl. Joseph ‘Dode’ Morris who served in the U.S. Army is the second citizen in the city of Mesa’s history to be killed in action. Our post proudly continues to serve both our veterans and community. Learn more about the history of the VFW in Mesa by visting our 
