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The American Legion Weekly. Vol. 4, no. 1. New York City: The American Legion. p. 11. OCLC 622734470 – via Internet Archive. ... he is now a National Vice-Commander of The American Legion, and his department, Vermont, is second in the list of States in proportion of Legionnaires to number of men contributed to the service. ^ McFarland, Keith ...
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".
Forty and Eight. / 39.8252874; -86.1525609. La Société des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux (English: "The Society of 40 Men and 8 Horses" ), commonly known as the Forty and Eight, is a patriotic organization of U.S. veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is made up of state, U.S. territory, and overseas grande, and these are in turn made ...
Vietnam Veterans Against the War ( VVAW) is an American tax-exempt non-profit organization and corporation founded in 1967 to oppose the United States policy and participation in the Vietnam War. VVAW is a national veterans ' organization that campaigns for peace, justice, and the rights of all United States military veterans.
The hotel closed in November 1976, four months after the outbreak. The 1976 Legionnaires' disease outbreak, occurring in the late summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States was the first occasion in which a cluster of a particular type of pneumonia cases were determined to be caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacteria.
National Association for Black Veterans. National Guard Association of the United States. Navy Musicians Association. Navy Mutual Aid Association. Paralyzed Veterans of America. Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (dissolved 2011) Polish Legion of American Veterans. Society of American Military Engineers.
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 ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars ( VFW ), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is an organization of U.S. war veterans who fought in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign land, waters, or airspace as military service members. [5] [7] Established on September 29, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio, [8] the VFW is headquartered in ...