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"PLEDGING OURSELVES TO OUR VETERANS, OUR YOUTH, A STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE & AMERICANISM"

    We work relentlessly in our four pillars of service

    Pillar 1: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation

    Pillar 1: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation

    Pillar 1: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation

    Veteran Affairs and Rehabilitation 

    Foremost, The American Legion was founded by veterans to help veterans after their discharge from military service. Within this pillar can be found American Legion services and programs, such as:

    • Accredited service officers who can provide free VA benefits claims counseling and support
    • Advocacy and stakeholder oversight of the VA health-care system, to include a voice in Washington and throughout the country
    • GI Bill education benefits
    • Volunteer veterans service officers who can refer veterans and their families to agencies, offices and programs that can help them
    • Career services, including a nationwide calendar of job fairs and other events, as well as guidance on veteran business ownership (Veterans Career Center)
    • Support and help for homeless veterans
    • Mentorship and help with Veterans Court
    • Food convoy to support our veterans in our homes here in Idaho
    • Honor Guard services for funerals of veterans
    • Support for veterans coping with PTSD and TBI

    SUICIDE CRISIS HOTLINE: 988 (Press 1)

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    Pillar 2: National Security

    Pillar 1: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation

    Pillar 1: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation

    National Security

    The American Legion’s national security positions and programs are contained in this pillar. The American Legion is a prominent voice of support for U.S. military personnel and reserve components, particularly in the area of quality of life, and benefits. 

    Within this pillar are:

    • Troop support
    • Family Support Network for military and veteran families during deployment
    • Temporary Financial Assistance for military and veteran families with minor children at home
    • Immigration and naturalization
    • Adoption of military units and installations and keeping them here in Idaho
    • Security at military funerals
    • Advocacy on behalf of U.S. military retirees using TRICARE
    • Support for the U.S. State Department and global diplomacy
    • POW/MIA accounting operations and commands
    • Advocacy for women veterans and military personnel
    • Foreign affairs

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    Pillar 3: Americanism

    Pillar 4: Children & Youth

    Pillar 4: Children & Youth

    Americanism

    The American Legion is, at heart, a patriotic organization and the nation’s leading authority on U.S. flag education, respect and etiquette. The American Legion promotes good citizenship, respectful expression of the National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance, and marches in patriotic parades and activities. Included in this pillar are:

    • Respect for the U.S. flag
    • Appropriate attention during the National Anthem
    • Support for the Pledge of Allegiance to open public and school gatherings and events
    • Respect for law and order
    • Support for the U.S. Constitution
    • Patriotic community activities and involvement in special events

    The Four Pillars of Service are simply an index of values under which many various programs and activities of The American Legion fall. Every local post is a separate corporation with its own ways of fulfilling the pillars of service at the community level. No two posts are exactly alike, as are no two communities, so every program of the organization is not executed at every post. A post may focus on one, some, many or all pillars of service to be effective in its community, based on its needs.

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    Pillar 4: Children & Youth

    Pillar 4: Children & Youth

    Pillar 4: Children & Youth

     Children and Youth

    The American Legion’s portfolio of youth programs has influenced millions of people over the years. Programs include competitive activities, college scholarships, educational contests, citizenship programs, support for children in need and many local activities and programs. This pillar includes:

    • American Legion Baseball
    • Youth scholarships
    • American Legion Junior Shooting Sports
    • Oratorical Contests and scholarships
    • Boys State and Boys Nation
    • Child Welfare Foundation, Inc.
    • Holiday events for children
    • Flag education programs
    • Sponsorship of Boy Scout units
    • Veterans in the Classroom guest speaking
    • Junior Law Cadet Enforcement program
    • Support and sponsorship of Junior ROTC
    • Many community-based youth programs
    • Support for our children in the classroom

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    Some of our post initiatives

    EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR OUR POST PARTICIPATE IN

    Helping out Veterans in need and working with and sponsoring other VSO’s to do the same.

    • Helping  to stock the VA Veterans food pantry
    • Helping to stock the VA Boise Veterans Home's canteen
    • Frank Dalton Memorial Food Convoy
    • Aaron Butler Purple Heart Run
    • Veterans with individual needs
    • Merchant Flag Program (displaying the American Flag at Eagle participating businesses on 13 major flag days during the year)
    • Operation Peanuts for Patriots (packaging bags of peanuts for our VA Veteran Home residents to feed the squirrels throughout the year)
    • Operation Thank A Veteran
    • Coffee With A Vet (A time and place where Veterans can get together to enjoy good company, camaraderie, and coffee)
    • Boys State, Oratorical Contest, and scholarships
    • Offering a Color Guard and bugler for events and Military burial services
    • Flag Retirement Ceremonies (multiple flag drop boxes throughout Eagle)
    • Participating in Eagle Fun Days, Eagle Field of Honor, Eagle Veterans Breakfast,
    • Wreaths Across America (to Remember the Fallen - Honor those who Served - Teach our children the value of Freedom by ensuring all our fallen heroes has a wreath placed upon their grave site in December partnering with the Treasure Valley Riders)


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