The American Legion’s National Executive Committee passed Resolution 20 during Spring Meetings in May. The resolution calls for American Legion posts to “promote a fun, positive public image and attract a new generation of American Legion Family members through the planning and operation of Family Play Day or Game Night events in their communities.”
Legion Post 365 in Vista, Calif., and Post 116 in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., held the first two Legion Family Play Days in July.
At Post 365, kids raced tricycles and dodged water balloons, adults played cornhole, and there was karaoke, face painting and the decoration of cookies. At Post 116, kids tossed rings onto a peg board, Boy Scouts played basketball, police officers played cornhole, firefighters showed kids inside two fire engines, and there was an opportunity to douse Post 116’s immediate past commander, 34-year-old Derric Grimes, an Army combat veteran and father of two young girls, into a dunk tank.
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