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Sons of The American Legion squadron adjutants can now access membership information, reports and electronic membership tools online. As of April 2015, Detachments now have access to the website which provides membership information, reports and electronic membership tools such as data change forms for all squadrons within their Detachment. [6]
Member Conflict Era Branch of Service References Orval Faubus: World War II Era: U.S. Army [citation needed]Mark Ferguson III: Gulf War Era: U.S. Navy [15]Hamilton Fish, Jr. World War I Era
The Forty and Eight was founded in March, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when World War I veteran Joseph Breen and 15 other members of The American Legion came together and organized it as an honor society for the Legion. They envisioned a new and different level of elite membership and camaraderie for leaders of the Legion.
The average age of an American Legion member is 67 years old, with 400,000 members over the age of 80. Don Marks, Commander of the Bronson post, said of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, "We have so ...
An ongoing lawsuit brought about by three legion members alleged former officers at the Washington American Legion paid themselves and others more than $417,000 in unauthorized bonuses and hid ...
When a local chapter in the American Legion falls below a dozen or so active members or interest in the organization wanes in a community, the statewide nonprofit gets involved to try to boost ...
The Paris Caucus. The American Legion was established in Paris, France, on March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand commissioned officers and enlisted men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name "American Legion".
Nearly two years ago, members of American Legion Post 188, a Black veterans’ group, sued the city for locking them out of their Post building on 196 Northwest Eighth Ave., claiming wrongful ...