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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".
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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 veteran organization The American Legion weighed in on the upside-down American flag controversy, noting flags should only be flown this way if there is "extreme danger to life or property."
Flag: Flag of the United States [1] Seal: Great Seal of the United States (obverse) (reverse) [2] National motto "In God We Trust" E pluribus unum [3] [4] National anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" "The Star-Spangled Banner" [5] National march "The Stars and Stripes Forever" "The Stars and Stripes Forever" [6] Oath of Allegiance: Pledge of ...
Emblem of Abkhazia; Emblem of Afghanistan; Emblem of Algeria; Emblem of Angola; National symbols of Antigua and Barbuda; Emblem of His Majesty the King of Ashanti; List of Australian bird emblems; List of Australian floral emblems; List of Australian mammal emblems; National emblem of Azerbaijan
Last year the American Legion’s National Executive Committee took the rare step of taking over administrative control of the American Legion Department of Washington as the committee developed a ...
On July 4, 1776, the same day that independence from Great Britain was declared by the thirteen colonies, the Continental Congress named the first committee to design a Great Seal, or national emblem, for the country. Similar to other nations, the United States needed an official symbol of sovereignty to formalize and seal (or sign ...