Upcoming Events

The DAV AUXILIARY UNIT 13 Meeting is:

Saturday, April 18th, at 2:00PM

Denny’s Restaurant

4999 34th ST N;

St Petersburg, FL

The regular Chapter membership meeting and Annual Election of Officers and Exectutive Committee Members will be at 5:30PM Tuesday May 5th, meal at 5PM at:

Lighthouse Church

4001 74th St N in St. Petersburg

Nominations for officers will be taken from the floor.

There will be a reading of a proposed amendment to the By-Laws at the meeting. The proposed amendment reads as follows:

"Chapter members may participate telephonically or virtually for general membership meetings. The active membership status of any member participating telephonically or virtually must be validated at the beginning of each meeting and documented in the Chapter’s meeting minutes. Voting during the election of Chapter officers is limited to in-person participation and will not permit telephonically or virtual participation by members. There shall be no form of voting by proxy or by absentee ballot. Members who experience difficulty, or who are unable to connect telephonically or virtually, for whatever reason, will not have any recourse to challenge prior decisions made during the Chapter meeting." 

Mission Statement    

 We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity.  We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America’s injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life.

This mission is carried forward by:

• Providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other agencies of government.

• Providing outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally, and to disabled veterans and their families specifically.

• Representing the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses and their orphans before Congress, the White House and the Judicial Branch, as well as state and local government.

• Extending DAV’s mission of hope into the communities where these veterans and their families live through a network of state-level Departments and local Chapters.

• Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.