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‘Everyone loves a good competition, right?’ 2024-04-19
The American Legion has featured, in some form, a National Concert Band Contest since the 3rd National Convention in 1921 and a National Color Guard Contest since the 11th National Convention in 1929. Applications are currently open for the contests at this year’s convention in New Orleans – deadlines are April 26 for concert bands […]
American Legion animated stickers available on GIPHY 2024-04-19
The American Legion National Headquarters has published a set of animated stickers for the GIPHY app that are available on Apple Store and Google Play. The stickers are a collection of animated versions of brandmarks and wordmarks for The American Legion, Legion Riders, Sons of The American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary and Be the One that […]
SAL squadron rehabs Gold Star Family’s house 2024-04-19
The parents of an Army staff sergeant from Malden, Ill., who was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom have a renovated home thanks to the efforts of a nearby Sons of The American Legion squadron. For several years, Squadron 1977 in New Lenox, Ill., has hosted an annual rib cookoff each summer, with the proceeds going […]
ALWS home field getting upgrades 2024-04-19
For two weeks in February and early March, the American Legion World Series home was crawling with trucks, graders and specialized equipment, sometimes from early morning into the evening hours.Workers at Veterans Field at Keeter Stadium in Shelby, N.C., literally skinned the dirt off the base paths, the pitcher’s mound and home plate and replaced […]
Arizona Riders chapter donates $40,000 to Fisher House 2024-04-18
In 2017, Merrell-Mitchell American Legion Riders Chapter 39 in Gilbert, Ariz., teamed up with the CHAMP Foundation to fundraise for the Tucson Fisher House, which provides free accommodations to the families of servicemembers and veterans receiving care at military and Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities throughout the world. Each year, the fundraising effort result […]

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