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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, It is the privilege of this Body to recognize |
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| significant milestones in the history of organizations in this |
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| State; and
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| WHEREAS, The Antioch American Legion Post No. 748 was |
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| granted a charter on February 25, 1926, and will celebrate its |
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| 80th anniversary at a dinner on Thursday, February 9, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, The charter members of Post No. 748 were John L. |
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| Horan, Otto S. Klass, Dr. G. W. Jensen, Chris Laursen, Clyde |
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| Fields, H. D. Regan, Russell Mead, Ellis Story, Charles Atwood, |
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| Arthur Maplethorpe, Paul Chase, Charles McCorkle, S.M. |
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| Wallace, Raymond Webb, and Adolph Pesat; and
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| WHEREAS, The purposes that the American Legion stands for |
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| are: to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States |
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| of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate |
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| a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and |
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| incidents of our associations in the Great Wars; to inculcate a |
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| sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and |
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| nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the |
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| masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and |
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| goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the |
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| principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; and to |
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| consecrate and sanctify their comradeship by their devotion to |
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| mutual helpfulness; and
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| WHEREAS, The American Legion was chartered by Congress in |
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| 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans |
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| organization; a community-service organization which now |
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| numbers nearly 3,000,000, both men and women, in nearly 15,000 |
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| American Legion Posts worldwide; these Posts are organized into |
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| 55 Departments, one each for the 50 states, the District of |
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| Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines; |