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VFW's Patriot's Pen & Voice of Democracy programs
Attention students, 6-8th grade and 9-12th grade:
Patriot’s Pen (6-8th grade) and Voice of Democracy (9-12th grade) youth essay competitions are now open. The deadline for submitting your materials to a VFW post is October 31, 2020.
See our pages on Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy for this year’s application and rules.
The themes are:
Patriot’s Pen: “What is Patriotism to Me?”
Voice of Democracy: “Is This the Country the Founders Envisioned?”