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PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

The Four Pillars

The American Legion was founded on four pillars: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation, National Security, Americanism, and Children & Youth. Each of these pillars encompasses a variety of programs that benefit our nation’s veterans, its service members, their families, the youth of America and ordinary citizens. These programs make a difference in hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

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Our organization’s positions and programs are guided by resolutions passed by American Legion National Convention delegates, and committee and commission members who represent 2.6 million wartime veterans and their families. These programs, and the men and women who take the time to perform them, are what allow The American Legion to make a difference locally, and on the state and national levels.

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It’s who we are and what we do.​

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VETERANS' AFFAIRS AND REHABILITATION

  • Access to VA Care

  • Better Funding Formula

  • Support for Veterans with

  • Special Needs

  • Career Opportunities

  • A GI Bill for a New Century

  • Employment and Business

  • Heroes to Hometowns

  • Volunteering

  • Final Respects

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AMERICANISM

  • Flag Protection

  • Illegal Immigration

  • Voter Registration and Participation

  • Boy Scouts

  • The Pledge of Allegiance

  • Establishment-Clause Lawsuits

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STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE

  • Military Quality of Life

  • Homeland Security

  • Foreign Relations

  • Full Accounting of POW/MIAs

  • Operation Comfort Warriors

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CHILDREN AND YOUTH

  • Catastrophic Illness

  • Intellectual Disabilities

  • Immunization

  • Family Integrity

  • Media Violence

  • Drug Abuse

  • Child Sexual Exploitation

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