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What Is A Veteran? A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.
POST #104-- 2010 DUES== GOAL 351
Feb 24th 2010---- Paid to Date=319
Post #104 ALL TIME HIGH= 521- 1981
"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing"
Last Monday of each month at 7PM at the Post Home upstairs
- unless a holiday interfers
All members are Welcome and encouraged to attend a meeting.
We need all veterans and members continued support.
There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.
If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If you are eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything you will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.
The aging usually don't have regrets for what they did, but rather for things they did not do.
The only people who fear death are those with regrets.
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eligibility in The American Legion is based on honorable service with the U.S. Armed Forces between the following events & dates--
World War I - April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918
World War II - December 7, 1941 to December 31, 1946
Korean War - June 25, 1950 to January 31, 1955
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Lebanon/Grenada - August 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984
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Operation Desert Shield/Storm - August 2, 1990 to currently open
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LEGIONNAIRE OF THE YEAR 2009-10
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Veterans can now salute during national anthem
Submitted by hsoria on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 9:28am.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Veterans and active-duty servicemembers not in uniform can now render the hand salute during the playing of our national anthem, thanks to changes in federal law that took effect this month. The legislative change was sponsored by Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., an Army veteran, and included in the Defense Authorization Act of 2009.
The new provision improves upon a little-known change in federal law last year that authorized veterans to render the hand salute during the raising, lowering or passing of the flag. But it did not address salutes during the national anthem. Last year's provision also applied to members of the armed forces while not in uniform.
The American Legion has opposed the saluting of the U.S. Flag when it is being raised, lowered or is in passing by those who are not in uniform. At its National Convention in Phoenix last August 2008, the Legion passed a resolution against the practice, saying that it "causes confusion leading to breaches of flag etiquette with regard to proper conduct during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance."
Furthermore, the Legion is concerned that salutes from veterans and servicemembers out of uniform will be imitated by the general public as the proper way to honor the U.S. Flag and/or national anthem. In responding to numerous phone calls and e-mails on the issue, the Legion's Americanism Commission offers this advice: "The law does allow veterans to render the right hand salute, but does not mandate it. If you feel uncomfortable in any situation where the flag is being raised, lowered or is passing in review, the traditional right hand over the heart - with the hat removed - is still a viable and very respectful alternative to the new law."
Traditionally, members of veterans service organizations have rendered hand-salutes during the national anthem, and at events involving the flag, while wearing their organization's official headgear.
NOTE: Veterans wearing there Legion hat are considered to be in uniform and therefore should salute.
