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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 American Legion membership is 1.3 million members nationally now. There were 3.12 million members in 2000. Nationally, officers admitted, "It lacks younger members to carry on our legacy."
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".
The American Legion Department of Washington is a nonprofit veterans’ organization that offers a variety of services to veterans and their families across the state, as well as youth programming ...
The NLH "frankly admit[ed]" to being an "offspring" of the American Legion of Honor [11] The Northwest Legion of Honor offered insurance certificates of $500, $1000, $2000 and $3,000. Assessments were graded by age, and one fifth was set aside for a fund to be used in the case of an epidemic or other increase in the death rate. [12]
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 ...
American Ex-Prisoners of War; American G.I. Forum; American Legion; AMVETS; American Veterans Committee (dissolved 2008) American Veterans Committee (2013–present day) American Veterans for Equal Rights; Army and Navy Union; Association of the United States Army; Aztec Club (organized by officers of the Mexican War) Blinded Veterans ...
The American Legion Department of Washington has been suspended after an investigation “revealed dysfunction within the department at a level that cannot be allowed to occur,” according to a ...