Did you know?

Did you know?

Centennial. Episode 4 of “To Strengthen a Nation: The American Legion Story” examines the organization’s legacy of support for a strong defense and members of the U.S. armed forces. Watch at  www.youtube.com/user/americanlegionHQ.

Newsletters online. The digitization of more than 50 years of American Legion national newsletters is available on the Legion’s Digital Archive,  https://archive.legion.org. These newsletters cover a timeframe, 1950-2000, that complements previously digitized material. The newsletters from the early 1950s to 1990, primarily published under the title The American Legion Advance, focus on supporting post leadership with programming ideas and community outreach initiatives. And The American Legion Dispatch has been digitized back to its first issue in 1991.

Additionally, the Digital Archive offers several central publications that illuminate the history of The American Legion from 1919 to the mid-2010s. These include:
• The American Legion magazine in all its versions, 1919-2016;
• Forty years of historic American Legion press releases, 1925, 1945-1952, 1957-1991; and
• Proceedings of national meetings, 1919-present.

100th anniversary resolution. On June 26, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a Senate resolution honoring The American Legion’s 100th anniversary of serving veterans, their families and communities. Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) introduced a resolution designating August 23-29 as “American Legion Week” to coincide with the Legion’s 100th anniversary convention in its home city of Indianapolis. 

In a press release, Braun said, “The American Legion has been a cornerstone of American life from the local to the federal level since the beginning, and serves as a constant reminder of the enormous contributions America’s armed service members have made to enrich our nation during and after their military service.”