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Preamble
to the Constitution of The American Legion
For God and Country
We associate
ourselves together for the following purposes:
To uphold
and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred
percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the Great Wars; to inculcate a sense of
individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make
right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of
justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
Who We Are
The American
Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans organization. A community-service
organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide.
These Posts are organized into 55 Departments -- one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.
The American
Legion's national headquarters is in Indianapolis,
Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of volunteers serving in leadership and program implementation
capacities in local communities to the Legion's standing national commissions and committees, the national organization has
a regular full-time staff of about 300 employees.
TAPS
Day is done, gone the sun,
from the lake, from the hill,
from the sky.
All is well, safely rest. God is nigh.
Thanks and praise for our days
neath the sun, neath the stars,
neath the sky.
As we go, this we know,
God is nigh.
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