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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 first post of the Legion, General John Joseph Pershing Post Number 1 in Washington, DC, was organized on March 7, 1919, and obtained the first charter issued to any Legion post on May 19, 1919. The St. Louis caucus that year decided that Legion posts should not be named after living persons, and the first post changed its name to George ...
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The Virginia War Museum was founded in 1923 by the Braxton-Perkins Post #25 of the American Legion as the American Legion Memorial Museum of Virginia. [1] From 1923 to 1941, this "museum" existed as a "series of exhibits... housed and displayed in such public locations as were available," with no permanent structure or staff. [2]
Former President Trump took a slight detour from his battleground state swing Saturday afternoon, giving remarks to supporters in Virginia. Trump is expected to target Vice President Harris over ...
Perryville American Legion Building, Perryville, Arkansas; Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20, Russellville, Arkansas; Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut, Lepanto, Arkansas; American Legion Post 43, Hollywood, California; American Legion Post No. 560 (Long Beach, California) American Legion Post No. 512 Carmel-by-the-Sea ...
Nearly a year after the Washington state chapter of the American Legion was suspended for “dysfunction” and disbanded, the Legion’s national chapter says the chapter is on track to get its ...