THE WORLDS LARGEST VETERANS' ORGANIZATION
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 good will 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.
The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, war-time veterans organization,devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is a not-for-profit community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members, men and women, in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide.
