The American Legion


"We salute all who serve past, present and future"

Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion

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 the masses; to

make right the master of might; to promote peace

and good will 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.