Post Meetings
are 1ST Wed of each month at 1900 hrs
Location is 615 Billy Mitchell Blvd
Your
Membership is Important!
These are just a few of the reasons...
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Last
year Legion Posts provided military funerals for 93,603 veterans.
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2,500
Boy Scout units and 70,000 young people in scouting are sponsored by
Legion Posts.
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97,000
young men, 15-19 participated in American Legion Baseball in 2005.
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The
American Legion has never forgotten our nation's POW & MIA's, and it
continues to elevate public awareness
Our
Mission
For God and Country We associate ourselves together for the
following purposes:
To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of
America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a
one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and
incidents of our associations in the Great Wars; to inculcate a
sense of individual obligation to the community, state and
nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the
masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and
goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the
principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and
sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
(Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion)
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The
American Legion Vision
The American
Legion is the nation's largest wartime veterans service organization founded on
the values, contributions, and sacrifices, of those who answered the nation's
call to arms, therefore we must:
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Respond
to quality of life needs of all veterans and their families,
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Prepare each generation to meet its
citizenship obligations,
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Maintain a strong national defense,
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Perpetuate the principles of government
embodied in the United States Constitution,
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Be a values-based organization committed to
serving God, country, community and every veteran today, tomorrow and
throughout the
21
st Century.
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