by caLegion Contributor | Feb 17, 2024
By: SFC Pete Fosselman, CA ARNG, U.S. Army A few years ago, my family and I went to the Presidio of San Francisco National Cemetery to bury my uncle next to his wife who predeceased him. While in the Presidio office, I was reading the eligibility requirements...
by caLegion Contributor | Dec 13, 2023
By Jeff Breiten, Redlands Post 106 Member SB 770 was recently signed into law by Governor Newsom (September 2023) and now a proposal, which seeks to eliminate Medicare in California and establish a “state run health care system”, is moving its way through...
by caLegion Contributor | Jan 4, 2023
This Post was written by Bryce Mallory: a Legionnaire out of Post 118 in Danville, Indiana. My name is Bryce Mallory, and I am a Legionnaire out of Post 118 in Danville, Indiana. A few years ago, I lived in Puerto Rico for a year and a half. I was there during...
by Sergio de la Peña | Aug 4, 2022
President Joe Biden’s Veterans Administration (VA) annual budget requests have increased by double-digit percentages—positive steps to take care of the nation’s nearly 20 million veterans. The VA’s request for Fiscal Year 2022 was roughly $270...
by Doug Woodhams | Aug 17, 2021
Editor’s note: Doug Woodhams has served several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and offered his personal thoughts on current events transpiring in the region. As I write this, 12-year-old girls are being seized to become sex slaves for Mujahid (“holy”...
by Christian Southards | Mar 29, 2021
On March 29, 1973, the last remaining U.S. troops and POWs evacuated South Vietnam, bringing an official end to America’s involvement in one of the most controversial conflicts of the last century. The following year, President Richard Nixon dedicated March 29...