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American Legion

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American Legion national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The preamble to the organization's constitution, adopted at the convention in St. Louis that same year, expresses its purposes in part as "to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism;?…?to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; to consecrate... Read more

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American Legion. The American Legion was founded in 1919 by World War I veterans seeking to preserve...II .] Bibliography William Pencak , For God and Country: The American Legion, 1919–1941 , 1989. Thomas A. Rumer , The American Legion... Read more

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American Legion. The American Legion, an organization open to all military war‐time veterans...Colmery and vigorously supported by Legion lobbyists. In 1999, the American Legion had nearly three million members in almost fifteen thousand posts... Read more

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