VFW Announces 2014-15 National Youth Scholarship Contest.

The Patriot’s Pen is a 300 to 400 word written essay. The essay is meant to help younger students learn more about the history of America and express their views. The Auxiliary website states that for the Patriot’s Pen, there are more than 132,000 students that enter the competition. The Michigan PP winners for this year are Isabelle.

Patriot’s Pen” is a naionwide youth essay contest sponsored by the V.F.W. It gives students an opportunity to write essays expressing their views on democracy with the prospect of winning U.S.

HARKER HEIGHTS — Middle school and high school students participating in the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ annual essay contests were recognized Saturday.

This essay contest is open to high school students in grades 9-12. While the Youth Essay and Patriot’s Pen competition requires a written essay, the Voice of Democracy competition requires the submission of an audio essay. This year’s topic was “My Responsibility to America.” Lara Wahid, a 9th grade student at Kamiak High School was.

Congratulations to Beau Garrett and Jeremy Dobbs, eighth graders at West-Oak Middle School. These two students were named the second place and third place winners in the local level VFW Auxiliary Patriot’s Pen essay contest, which is part of a nationwide essay contest, “Patriot’s Pen”.

Published 10:19 am Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Larissa Foslee, a third-grader at Southland, placed third in the district portion of the VFW’s Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest. She is the daughter of.

Altoona Area Junior High School seventh-grade student Alex Thaler recently participated in the 2015-16 Patriot’s Pen essay contest, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

VFW honors essay winners Thursday, April 2, 2015 by ELSA KERSCHNER Special to The Press in School. The Ladies Auxiliary to R. W. Fritzinger VFW Post 7215 and the VFW post recently held a dinner to honor the winners in the Patriot's Pen and Voice of Democracy essay contests.

The Voice of Democracy is an oral essay contest where high school students include a three to five-minute recorded speech along with an essay on a patriotic topic. It has been the VFW’s premier scholarship program since 1947. This year’s theme was about what makes America great. The Patriot’s Pen essay contest had the same theme.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Bear Flag Post 1943 honored its Sonoma 2014 Voice of Democracy (VOD) and Patriot’s Pen essay winners at a banquet dinner for the community last month.

Memorial Middle School eighth-grader Terrance Dumoulin was awarded the district level second-place prize for the VFW Patriot’s Pen program. On May 4, 2015, Terrance and his parents, residents of Middlebury, attended the District 2 awards luncheon in Madison, Conn., at the VFW Post, where he read aloud his award-winning essay.

Patriot’s Pen essay winners announced Dedicated to honoring veterans, St. Mary Catholic School sixth through eight grade students entered the Patriot’s Pen Contest, Sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary, contest winners each receive a savings bond.