Dugout - March 2018

Dugout-March 2018
The Post needs you Legionnaires and fellow citizens to rally for Memorial Day.  Contact Ed Dukich and Ed Martin Jr. at eddiemartin212@gmail.com.

Announcements on Memorial Day Parade Meetings are forthcoming.  Please pay attention to this website and our facebook page for notification.  Correction:  Ed Dukich is Chairman of the Parade Committee for the Village of Freeport Memorial Day Parade.   Ed Martin Jr. is  Senior Committee Member not Co-Chair.

73rd Anniversary of Marines Taking Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years. James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; 23 February 1945 (the flag-raising on Iwo Jima had been immortalized in a photograph by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal)

73 years ago today, Marines on Iwo Jima raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi.

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Semper Fidelis. pic.twitter.com/lRUTwLp9fR

— U.S. Marines (@USMC) February 23, 2018

Sen. Young speaks to The American Legion

Enjoy the Video

‘The Greatest Legislation’ opens in Los Angeles

‘The Greatest Legislation: An American Legion Centennial Tribute to the GI Bill‘ opened a three-month appearance at Bob Hope Patriotic Hall in Los Angeles.