VFW Post 1487, Roseville, CA

08/04/2026

07/22/2026

Our Board of Supervisors has approved three proposed amendments to the Placer County Charter for voter consideration.

Two measures will appear on the Nov. 3, 2026, ballot, including proposals to extend the timeframe for filling a Board of Supervisors vacancy and provide greater flexibility in county executive officer employment agreements while preserving board oversight.

A third measure, regarding the Board of Supervisors compensation formula, will appear on the Nov. 7, 2028, ballot.

Learn more: https://www.placer.ca.gov/10984/Charter-amendments

07/22/2026

"We stopped Congress from taking a dangerous step today. No matter how people try to spin it, Congress shouldn’t open Pandora’s Box on arbitrarily reducing disability ratings. It’s never been done before. We’re not about to let it start.” - VFW National Commander Carol Whitmore https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2026/7/vfw-encouraged-as-tcava-house-vote-postponed

07/22/2026

All set up for another Tuesday night in downtown Roseville. Come on down and say Hi 👋.

07/18/2026

Kate O’Hare-Palmer served as a US Army nurse, evacuation hospital in Vietnam, 1968.
“We were overrun once as a hospital unit,” she said. “We were hiding patients, and putting them into containers; hoping to keep them safe. We stayed inside the fence.”

Tending to the wounded and the dying became etched in her mind, haunting her for decades after the war. She looked for ways to stay grounded while in-country, and the things that helped her cope there helped her cope back home, too.

“I started trading my (medical) instruments for chickens so that I could get fresh eggs,” she said. “Some (other military personnel) had dogs. Pets were helpful. I had 10 chickens before I left. The engineers built me a little chicken coop. The dogs got after one of them, and I took it into the ER and got an IV into it to save it.”

“Flying home to Travis Air Force Base, we were bussed to the Oakland depot with protestors throwing rotten vegetables at us. It was shocking … we were not prepared for this. How could this be? We had left one war zone to arrive in another,” she stated.

She returned from the war to work at VA hospitals, including Fort Miley in San Francisco, but her experiences as a surgical nurse never left her.

“I had trouble even seeing blood,” she said. She had nightmares about it, which convinced her to move out of surgical nursing. She used her GI Bill education benefits to get her degree. She spent more than 30 years in nursing; became an advocate for women veterans, speaking out about everything including post-traumatic stress disorder. God bless Kate and all our Angel in Fatigues!

To learn more about our brave women who served please check out the book, "Women in War" by David Yuzuk. Available as a Paperback, Audiobook and eBook.

Amazon US paperback Link: https://a.co/d/0dbDhZPP

07/18/2026

Our Post has once again attained All- American Status!

07/10/2026

"The VFW has never apologized for forcefully defending veterans and we are not about to start now.” - VFW National Commander Carol Whitmore

Since its introduction in the fall of 2025, the firing squad illustration has become a recognizable symbol of the VFW's ongoing Honor The Contract campaign and was presented to the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs during VFW testimony last October. https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2026/7/vfw-defends-longstanding-tradition-of-political-satire-while-opposing-cuts