Limited VolunteerOUR MISSION
AMVETS was born of war, for the cause of peace. In December of 1944, nine veterans organizations across the nation, made aware of each other by a Collier’s magazine article, met in Kansas City, Missouri to form a national organization. They adopted the name “American Veterans of World War II”. A newspaperman, trying to fit the name of the veterans organization into a headline, created the abbreviation “AMVETS”; a name which was eventually officially adopted. AMVETS first national convention was held in Chicago in October of 1945.