The Preeminent Voice For Veterans
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. For additional information locally contact Germantown American Legion Post 250 by calling 362-198 or visiting one of our meetings at the Pickering Center, 7771 Poplar Pike in Germantown.
FAMOUS LEGIONNAIRES
While addressing the American Legion’s 42nd national convention in 1960, a World War II hero and member of Boston’s Post 281 said, “Legionnaires, who were willing in war to fall, faithful to the service of our country, I ask you in the 1960s to live, and live faithful to the service of the cause of freedom and the cause of the United States. Three months later that same Legionnaire, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy implored his fellow Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
