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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Military & Veterans Organizations, Veterans
Mission: The american legion was chartered and incorporated by congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness.
Programs: "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; tofoster and perpetuate a 100-percent americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of ourassociations in the great wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state andnation; 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 ofjustice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutualhelpfulness. "