| |
 |
Who We Are As A National Organization
(as prepared by the
American Legion, © 1996 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
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.
The American Legion's national headquarters is in
Indianapolis, Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, DC. 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. |
|
