Montezuma County VFW Auxiliary Post #5231

05/25/2026

Save the date and mark your calendars! National Wreaths Across America Day 2026 will take place on Saturday, December 19!

05/25/2026

05/16/2026

Flags out in Mancos for Police Officers Memorial Day and Armed Forces Day this weekend.

05/01/2026

Today is Loyalty Day!

The VFW Auxiliary has been involved in Loyalty Day since its inception, just over a century ago. In fact, it was Bessie Hanken, not yet a VFW Auxiliary National President, who was instrumental in championing the creation of this holiday, a response to the growing threat of communism that had overtaken May Day.

In 1921, the first Americanization Day, as it was originallyknown, was celebrated. Two years later, Hanken would survive an assassination attempt made on the life of a politician with whom she was presenting at an anti-communism protest – though three bullets did strike the coat draped across her shoulders.

Loyalty Day grew in popularity and importance as the United States grappled with the looming dangers of fascism and Naziism in the 1930s and ‘40s and finally became an official holiday by Presidential Proclamation in 1959.

You can read more about the history of Loyalty Day, and, in particular, the VFW and VFW Auxiliary’s involvement in the holiday, in the May 2025 edition of VFW Auxiliary Magazine. Flip to Our History on Page 21.

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