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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. |
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The American Legion's National Headquarters is
in Indianapolis, Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, D.C. 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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Preamble to the Constitution
of The American Legion
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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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