President Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW leads delegation
Emily Mickle (l), S.C.'s president #4262 of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Ward, and Jan Tittle, national president, a life member of TSgt Walter C. Fulda Auxiliary #3433 in Ladson, S.C. South Carolina's president Emily Mickle of Columbia, a member of Gandy- Griffin#4262, led the state delegation of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the U.S. at the 96th National Convention held August 15- 20 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
As leading representative of the state, she voiced the delegates' votes during the election of national officers.
The national president thanked members for volunteering 1.5 million hours in the nation's hospitals, raising $2,601,753 for the organization's Cancer Aid & Research Fund and donating $275,637 for Operation Uplink to provide long- distance telephone cards to troops and hospitalized veterans.
National President Dixie Hild sent funds to the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, Fisher House Foundation, Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles, The Highground Veterans
Memorial Park and other organizations around the country.
