My dad, Arthur W. Farash, was drafted in the US Navy in 1917 in Newport, Rhode Island, and joined the American Legion as a World War I veteran. He served as a Machinists Mate on a coal burning ship of the coastal waters of Nantucket. He was for many years until his death a member of the William A. Leonard Post in Flushing, New York, where he got me accepted as a member in 1968 when I returned from Vietnam.
When he was buried in 1975 there were no military funeral honors like all veterans have now since 2001 and I attended as a regular Army SFC in uniform.
Someone from his post came to the wake at the funeral home wearing his Legion cap. I can remember as a small child in the early 1940s during WWII when his post marched in Legion uniforms in Memorial Day parades and partied after the parades. I also remember hearing remarks made about all the newcomers when WWII veterans started joining the post after the war and later Korean War Veterans were joining.