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May 30, 2015 was a mixture of a family reunion and high school reunion on the campus of the National Home as many alumni from the Home visited their past. From Texas and Alaska to Illinois and Michigan, alumni gathered in the Community Center and museum to renew friendships, pore through stacks of old photographs and just share stories of their lives during and after their stay at the National Home. In preparatio…

The National Home’s Community Celebration is an annual highlight in our community. Each year, residents, trustees, staff and guests gather in the Community Center auditorium to publicly recognize the academic and personal achievements our residents have attained during the past year. The event kicks off with our youngest honorees, the National Home’s preschool graduates. This year, seven youngsters will head off t…

The VFW National Home for Children is celebrating its 90th Anniversary throughout 2015. As part of that celebration, we will be focusing on one decade of the National Home’s history each month. This month, we highlight the 1950’s. The Begining of the 4-H Program Early in 1952, the 4-H progam was adopted at the National Home. The children had 10 different fields of activity to chose from including: gardening, arc…

The VFW National Home for Children is celebrating its 90th Anniversary throughout 2015. As part of that celebration, we will be focusing on one decade of the National Home’s history each month. This month, we present the 1940’s. The Great Depression takes a toll The depression took a huge toll on the finances at the National Home. The future of the Home was in question because of the financial crisis that reeked …

The VFW National Home for Children is celebrating its 90th Anniversary throughout 2015. As part of that celebration, we will be focusing on one decade of the National Home’s history each month. This month, we present the Home’s struggle to maintain and grow during the Depression years of the 1930s. The Early Years Life at the National Home was going very well. The peaceful country atmosphere brought hope and heali…

The National Home children and their friends got to run and bounce and play at last Sunday’s UAW Carnival. United Auto Workers Region 1-D Veterans Council provides the annual event, and many National Home staff members were on hand in the Community Center’s gym to help out with the games and inflatable play pieces. The games and activities were strictly old-fashioned – bounce houses, tossing stuffed animals into s…

Awareness Week 2015 is March 22-28. This year’s focus is the celebration of the VFW National Home for Children’s 90th year of helping military and veteran families. And since our founding in 1925, a great many memories have been made here by a great many veterans, children and families. As part of our anniversary celebration, we want to honor and preserve those memories. On behalf of everyone who has passed throug…

The VFW National Home for Children is celebrating its 90th Anniversary throughout 2015. As part of that celebration, we will be focusing on one decade of the National Home’s history each month. This month, we present the Home’s beginnings in the 1920s. The Beginning It was 1922 and the Great War had ended four years earlier. Groups of veterans roamed the streets of the nation’s cities looking for any kind of work …

The VFW National Home for Children is celebrating its 90th Anniversary throughout 2015. As part of that celebration, we present the history of the National Home’s first family to live here—the Polletts. The National Home’s first family—the Polletts On March 2, 1925, Sgt. Edward Pollett left his home in Halfway, Michigan to pick up his retirement check at Fort Wayne in Detroit. He never made it back home; he was hi…

“Shake shake shake … Shake shake shake your ice cream!” The kids enthusiastically shook their plastic baggies to the teacher’s singing. They weren’t sure why they were shaking the baggies, but it was fun to do. Fun and tasty, too! The VFW National Home for Children’s youngest residents at the preschool and child care center recently took part in the old-fashioned activity of making ice cream. The toddlers were g…