Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 776 Commander Gary Harris presents an award to Radford High School student Abby Barnes for her third-place finish in the VFW’s district national Voice of Democracy essay contest. Barnes won first place at the local level for her essay on this year’s theme, “Is This the Country the Founders Envisioned?” The VFW Voice of Democracy audio essay program has been awarding scholarship funds to teens in the U.S. for more than 70 years. Participants write an essay based on a theme and then record themselves reading their work. Those recordings are then judged by members of the VFW.
