Did you know: Senate passes resolution for 'American Legion Week'

Digital Archive. After a multi-year effort, the Library and Museum has made available through the Digital Archive (https://archive.legion.org) all the currently active resolutions from 1919 to present. This amounts to close to 2,000 resolutions that establish and guide the priorities and programs of the Legion.

Legion Baseball. Through fan voting, American Legion Baseball will be honoring the greatest players from the first 100 years of The American Legion. Fans can vote online at www.legion.org/baseball/vote for the team. A total of 85 nominees, including all of the 78 former American Legion Baseball players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as players or coaches, were presented to the American Legion Baseball Committee, which pared the list down to 60 for a fan vote.

Fans can vote for as many or as few players as they see fit for their ballot.

Legion Week. On July 31, the U.S. Senate passed a 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 the resolution designating Aug. 23-29 as “American Legion Week” to coincide with the Legion’s national convention in its home city of Indianapolis. U.S. Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., is expected to introduce companion legislation in the House of Representatives.

JSSP winners. The American Legion’s 29th annual Junior 3-Position Air Rifle Championship in Colorado Springs, Colo., named Makenzie Sheffield of Granbury, Texas, its precision winner and Jaden-Ann Fraser of Church Hill, Tenn., its sporter winner.