Links to Related Websites

The American Legion National Headquarters

South Carolina Department Headquarters

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Leverette-Thomas American Legion Post 44

Iva, South Carolina

The American Legion was chartered by the United States Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual help, wartime veterans organization, a community service organization which now numbers nearly three million members, men and women, in nearly 15,000 posts worldwide.  These posts are organized into 55 departments—one each for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.  The American Legion is a powerful force in Washington, DC, fighting for the rightful benefits for veterans and troops presently serving their country.

THE AMERICAN LEGION PREAMBLE

 

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 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.