Veterans of Foreign Wars, Franklin-Sloan Post 7383

Franklin-Sloan Post 7383 is the Cary home of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, on Reedy Creek Road. It is open to eligible veterans and service members from the active, guard, and reserve forces, and it runs alongside a VFW Auxiliary. The national organization behind the post is a nonprofit veterans service group.

Members put on youth and education programs, flag etiquette ceremonies, a golf tournament, and other fundraising events through the year. The post also fields a baseball team, with an auxiliary softball team beside it, and the hall can be rented for gatherings.

What to know

• The national organization traces its roots to 1899 and the Spanish-American War.
• Membership across the VFW and its Auxiliary now passes 1.5 million people.
• The group helped win a GI Bill for the 21st century in 2008.
• It pushed for the Veterans Access and Accountability Act of 2014.
• Fundraising helped build the Vietnam, Korean War, and World War II memorials.