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A life member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 914 Intrepid West Mifflin was presented a national writing award by Past VFW National Commander John A. Biedrzycki, Jr. during the District 29 meeting at VFW Post 402 in Coraopolis Nov. 20.

Past VFW National Commander John A. Biedrzycki, Jr., left, presents VFW Post 914 Intrepid Life Member Michael P. Mauer with the grand award for best feature article in the VFW National Publications Contest at VFW Post 402 in Coraopolis Nov. 20.

Michael P. Mauer, an Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm, won the grand award for best feature article in the VFW National Publications Contest. The article, ‘Post with No Home Earns All State Honors’, was published in the August/September 2015 edition of the Pennsylvania VFW News. Winners of the competition were announced by the VFW May 2.

Mauer’s entry bested a field of articles submitted from more three dozen VFW departments located across the United States and around the world. The judges’ panel was comprised of professional journalists not affiliated with the VFW.

An active freelance writer for more than 35 years, Mauer won the Army’s highest journalism honor, the Keith L. Ware, in 1991. He was also awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf for his actions as a military reporter in Operation Desert Storm. He was appointed as a VFW National Aide-De-Camp in 2006.

In 2010, Mauer was indicted into the Southwestern Pennsylvania Veterans Hall of Fame. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications from Point Park University in 1984.

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