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Preamble to the Constitution of The American
Legion
For God and Country
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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.
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Who We Are
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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.
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