| Commander | - Cliff Newman |
| 1st Vice Commander | - Greg Werbowski |
| 2nd Vice Commander | - Ron Wolford |
| 3rd Vice Commander | - Fadi Awaijane |
| Adjutant | - Wayne Wallace |
| Finance Officer | - Richard Oelschlager |
| Chaplain | - Paul Adler |
| Sgt. at Arms | - William Golden |
| Historian | - (Open) |
| Service Officer | - (Open) |
| Jr Past Cmdr. | - Gary Munkholm |
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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. |
The American Legion Preamble
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| For God and Country |
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we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:
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| 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. |
Membership Eligibility Dates |
| World War I - April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918 |
| World War II - December 7, 1941 to December 31, 1946 |
| Korean War - June 25, 1950 to January 31, 1955 |
| Vietnam War - December 22, 1961 to May 7, 1975 |
| Grenada & Lebanon - August 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984 |
| Panama - December 20, 1989 to January 31, 1990 |
| Persian Gulf - August 2, 1990 to Open |
