On February 14, 1944, veterans who had served honorably in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force of the United States of America in foreign wars were authorized to organize a post in Bristow, Oklahoma, to be known as Bristow Post No. 3656, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Those named were Elbert R. Anderson, Walter G. Bisbee, Edward R. Burris, Clarence A. Davis, Ralph H. Gable, Jr., Lee J. Johnson, Sherman C. Jones, Jr., Robert M. Loeffler, Ray M. Myers, Dewey H. Price, Milton L. Sears, Vince A. Ary, Jr., Joseph E. Bowling, Lewis R. Conrad, Leon T. Davis, Claude O. Holder, Sherman C. Jones, David H. Loeffler, Lee Roy McMurtry, Ulois V. Newell, William Randolph, Glenn Stimmel, Fred Trask, Jesse S. Burks, William E. Cooper, Glen D. Freeland, Joe E. Humphrey, Charles P. Jones, Louis Loeffler, Elmer L. McNan, Jess S. Pettin, C. D. Rummel, and James D. Stokes.