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Welcome to American Legion Laurel Post 60 Home Page.
Post 60 is located at 2 Main Street in Laurel, Maryland. Our telephone number is
(301) 725-2302. For Map and Directions to the Post, click here .
Latest Announcements:
>>> The July-August 2009 Post 60 Newsletter is published. Please
Note: This is the last issue being mailed out due to the high cost of postage. Stop by the Post for hard
copies of the newsletters. Or, if you want to receive the newsletter electronically to you, please send the Adjutant
your e-mail address. Otherwise, the newsletter will be posted here on the website. Click on the link on
the Navigation Bar to view the newsletters.
Members of Post 60 Family (Legion, Auxiliary, Sons of the American Legion) Please
email our Adjutant so that he can get a good list of email addresses for our members.
The American Legion: Who We Are
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.
Membership eligibility in The American Legion is based on honorable
federal active duty service with the U.S. Armed Forces between:
April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918 (World War I)
December
7, 1941 to December 31, 1946 (World War II)
June 25, 1950 to January 31, 1955 (Korean War)
February 28, 1961 to May
7, 1975 (Vietnam War)
August 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984 (Lebanon/Grenada)
December 20, 1989 to January 31, 1990 (Operation
Just Cause - Panama)
*August 2, 1990 to present (Operations Desert Shield/Storm; Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan;
Iraqi Freedom)
*Because eligibility dates remain open, all members of the
U.S. Armed Forces are eligible to join The American Legion at this time, until the date of the end of hostilities as determined
by the government of the United States.
Join our Post! If you are eligible, just print and fill out a membership card and bring us a copy of your DD Form 214 or other honorable discharge document.
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