OUR ORGANIZATION

IS A VOICE FOR VETERANS, ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, AND THEIR FAMILIES.  WE ARE HERE TO ASSIST ALL VETERANS AND ENCOURAGE ELIGIBLIE VETERANS TO JOIN OUR POST.  OUR PURPOSE IS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROMOTING PATRIOTISM, AMERICIASM, COMRADESHIP, AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION,

 

OUR POST HOME

WAS CHARTERED APRIL 5, 1937.  TWENTY SEVEN VETERANS, WHO PRIMALY SERVED IN WORLD WAR ONE, GATHERED AT THE FIRST POST HOME NEAR 10^TH AND CONNECTICUT.  ONCE ESTABLISHED THEY MOVED TO THE UPPER FLOOR OF A CITY BUILDING AT 8^TH AND VERMONT. IN THE EARLY FOURTYS THE MEMBERSHIP MOVED TO THE “HOLE” AT 8^TH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.  IN FEBRUARY 1965, OUR CURRENT POST HOME WAS BUILT AT 138 ALABAMA ST. 

 

OUR NAME SAKE

IS ARMY CAPTAIN ALFORD AND ARMY CAPT CLARKE WHO SERVED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS  DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

 

OUR MEMBERSHIP

IS COMPRISED OF VETERANS WHO ARE U.S. CITIZENS, HAVE HONORABLY SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, AND HAVE SERVED OVERSEAS TO OBTAINED ELIGIBLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS AS SET FORTH BY VFW NATIONAL BY-LAWS.  OUR MEMBERS SPAN MANY GENERATIONS FROM WORLD WAR 2 THROUGH TODAYS ACTIVE DUTY PERSONNEL.  

 

WE SUPPORT

A VAST CROSS SECTION OF OUR COMMUNITY.  HAVING SERVED OUR COUNTRY, WE NOW SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.

OUR RANGE OF SUPPORT STARTS WITH YOUTH GROUPS AND NEVER ENDS WITH THE NEEDS OF OUR VETERANS.

 

· YOUTH GROUPS                                   

· SCOUTING UNITS                                  

· ROTC AWARDS                                     

· SCHOLARSHIPS                                                 

· MEALS ON WHEELS

· BASEBALL TEAMS       

· VETERANS ASSISTANCE

· ACTIVE DUTY UNITS

· AIDE TO VA CENTERS

· LOANING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT           

· YOUTH GATHERINGS

 

                         

 

EVERY YEAR WE ENCOURAGE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ELEVATE THEIR EDUCATION BY PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS IN THEIR FIRST YEAR OF HIGHER EDUCATION,

WE ARE VETERANS HELPING VETERANS BY PROVIDING COUNSLEING, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND COMARADESHIP.

WE CHARTERED SCOUT UNITS, YOUTH BASEBALL TEAMS,

WE SUPPORT ACTIVE DUTY UNITS (ADOPT A UNIT) PROGRAMS AND HELP SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES WHILE MEMBER IS DEPLOYED

Directions to our Post

Please see our  Canteen  link for  banquet hall facility information.  Our hall is great for a wedding reception, birthday parties, graduations, anniversary parties, retirement  parties, non-profit events  and  holiday parties.  We are a premier facility located in  Lawrence (Douglas County), Kansas, and  centrally located near the Topeka and Kansas City area.