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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.

Dugout October 2016 - Membership Issue

Dugout - October 2016

The Dugout is published once a month with article deadlines the third Wednesday of every month.  If you have articles of interest concerning Veterans, Veterans Health, Military history or Veteran current events please submit them to:  1st Vice Cmdr, William Clinton Story Post No. 342, P.O. Box 7339, Freeport, NY 11520.

You can also email us at "wcspost342@gmail.com."   Thank You.

2016 Midshipmen Family BBQ

   Victoria Dinielli, Manager of Freeport
  Recreation Center also notified the William
  Clinton Story Post No. 342 of the arrival of the
  U.S. Naval   Academy Offshore Training
  Squadron on Thursday, August 11, 2016 in the
  morning between 8:00 am and 11:00 am.

  All Legionnaires who can attend the arrival of the
  Midshipmen are encouraged to attend at the
  Nautical Mile "Esplanade" on Woodcleft
  Avenue.
  Contact 1st Vice Cmdr. D. Cockerel for details. 

“2015 Midshipman Family BBQ”

Mayor Kennedy with the Police Chief, Fire Chief and Legion  Members at the Esplanade.

2015 Midshipman Family Barbeque

The USNA Offshore Training Squadron 3A arrived at the Esplanade on the Nautical Mile between 1 and 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, August 7, 2015.  The Midshipmen were greeted by the Village of Freeport and several of its civic organizations including our own William Clinton Story Post No. 342.

On Saturday, August 8th, some of the Post Membership came out to enjoy some barbeque at the Freeport Recreation Center with the Midshipmen.  It was a time of fun food, good conversation and wonderful camaraderie.  

Sophia Johnson,  Village of Freeport Media Director, provided the photo below of the OSTS-3A Midshipmen along with Veterans, Village of Freeport Officials and Recreation Center Director Vicky Danelli.  All in all, a wonderful Saturday Afternoon.

 

Post 342 American Legion Veterans Day Program

Freeport American Legion Veterans Day Program
November 11, 2014 @ 10:00 AM

This Veterans Day the Freeport American Legion will honor all Veterans with a program that will include Singing performances from Freeport's Atkinson School Chorus led by Stephanie Arnell.

There will also be a Video Presentation for Veterans produced for the American Legion for this event. 

Major Donald R. Moore, USMC (Ret.)
Commander of the Freeport High School JROTC will be our guest speaker.

Veterans Day is the time we celebrate with the Veterans among us the freedoms we take for granted day by day, among these freedoms are;.......

the right to Assemble, the right to petition your government, the freedom of the press, the right to have possessions and home to keep them in, and you have the right to possess and bear arms.  

Veterans Day is the day we also observe those no longer with us, brothers who slogged through the ranks with us or sisters who had their aircraft shot out of combatant skies or were killed providing medical attention in overgrown forested regions or frozen lands.

When you Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America you are not worshiping a country. You keep faith with every farm boy from Iowa, every city kid from Brooklyn, every girl from North Carolina, every Old Man who's head turned grey serving his nation and every woman who sent a son off to war.  You pledge allegiance to every American soul who lifted a hand or fired a weapon to save someone else on this planet from fear, torture and tyranny.  

Celebrate with the William Clinton Story Post No. 342 of the American Legion as we recognize in an observance of Americanism the Veterans of the United States of America.

footnotes:
http://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
http://www.army.mil/
http://www.navy.mil/
http://www.af.mil/
http://www.marines.mil/

Freeport Community Meeting / Hurricane Sandy Relief

Freeport Community Meeting / Superstorm Sandy Relief 

The regular meeting of the American Legion Post 342 scheduled for Wednesday, December 19, 2012 is cancelled.  Commander Paul Nehrich has directed that Legionnaires from the Post go to the Freeport Community Meeting / Superstorm Sandy Relief Update being held and directed by Mayor Andrew Hardwick at the Freeport Recreation Center on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 6:30 pm. 

Mayor Hardwick will be giving updates regarding both State and Federal disaster aid for residents and businesses in Freeport.  The Mayor is also expected to give information regarding the process that citizens of Freeport will have to go through to get aid and how the Village of Freeport will help its citizens in that effort.

Commander Nehrich thanks all Legionnaires for their participation in community efforts to restore the Village of Freeport and its Citizenry to normalcy.

This is in keeping with our oath to "consecrate and sanctify or comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness."

For God and Country

David N. Cockerel, 2nd Vice Commander, Post 342
By Direction