.: Who We Are
The
American Legion was
chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time
veterans organization. A community-service organization which now
numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in nearly 15,000
American Legion Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized into 55
Departments -- one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.
The
American Legion's national
headquarters is in Indianapolis,Indiana, with additional offices in
Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of volunteers serving in
leadership and program implementation capacities in local communities
to the Legion's standing national commissions and committees, the
national organization has a regular full-time staff of about 300
employees.
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.: Preamble
to the Constitution of the American
Legion
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.
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