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Chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919, The American Legion is the nation’s largest veterans service organization and its Department of California is dedicated to serving the approximately 2 million veterans living in communities across the Golden State.
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A brief overview of the new MyLegion.org site
A brief overview of the new MyLegion.org site The American Legion February 24, 2021 The American Legion’s Training Tuesday session Feb. 23 discussed the benefits of the MyLegion.org website and what to look for when the new version goes live in early April. A...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs announced a new data policy that aims to improve how the VA manages veterans' personal information, including determining what services and benefits veterans qualify for. The new Ethics Principles for Access to and Use of Veteran...
California’s first Black commander
As we finish Black History Month, here’s a pop quiz for the membership of the California American Legion: Who was the first African-American commander of the Department of California, and when did he/she serve? During the state convention of 2006, the American Legion...
A Free Virtual Legal Clinic for Veterans
March 17 Record Clearing Clinic flier The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) is hosting its next Virtual Record Clearing Clinic, sponsored by Sheppard Mullin, on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Self-Help Workshop 4:30...
Black Veterans Project files multiple Freedom of Information Act requests against VA, citing documented racial disparity in VA benefits
Black veterans have been "purposefully and systematically marginalized" by the Department of Veterans Affairs for decades, said the head of a Black veterans organization on Tuesday. Black Veterans Project filed three separate Freedom of Information Act requests on...
Helmets for Heroes still active during pandemic
Rich Klinke and myself put up a h4h display at the Placerville gun show on Feb. 5 and 6, there are lot of generous people in El Dorado County. We collected a few hundred dollars from the helmets displayed on the table and signed up five new Sons of The American Legion...
Cecil Cox and the legacy of Clovis Post 147
On the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour in 1918, WWI ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. While hundreds of thousand U.S. Troops were in Europe awaiting transport back home, the first American Legion Caucus was held in Paris,...
VA extends financial relief as veterans among hardest hit by COVID-19 economic effects
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is extending its financial assistance policies for veterans in accordance with COVID-19 relief measures implemented in the most recent federal COVID relief bill. According to a Feb. 16 press release, the VA is extending its...
A Virtual Four Chaplains Program Presented by District 24
[robo-gallery id="74750"] You are invited to join us for the District 24 Four Chaplains Program on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 1 pm PST. This video program was made in a partnership between District 24 and Hollywood Post 43. On February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester,...