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Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion
For God and Country
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| 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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Who
We Are
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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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