KANSAS CITY, MO – In an unprecedented response to dwindling membership ranks, the Veterans of Foreign Wars have extended eligibility to military fakers.
According to officials, people who fake military service may be the financial saving grace for what many perceive as a dying organization. A lack of interest in the current crop of young veterans has caused membership to shrink and many posts to close.
The VFW conducted a survey last year to discover why young veterans were ambivalent towards the organization. 65 percent of those surveyed, aged 18-30, responded by asking, "What's the VFW?"
"After I figured out it wasn't just a creepy, dive bar behind 7-11, I joined up," said Matt Ross, a 24-year-old Iraq veteran who quit a few weeks later. "It's nice, but it's not my thing. I only pre-partied there for the cheap drinks. If I'm going to tell war stories all night, it's cause I'm trying to get laid."
