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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, It is the privilege of this Body to recognize
3 significant milestones in the history of organizations in this
4 State; and
 
5     WHEREAS, The Antioch American Legion Post No. 748 was
6 granted a charter on February 25, 1926, and will celebrate its
7 80th anniversary at a dinner on Thursday, February 9, 2006; and
 
8     WHEREAS, The charter members of Post No. 748 were John L.
9 Horan, Otto S. Klass, Dr. G. W. Jensen, Chris Laursen, Clyde
10 Fields, H. D. Regan, Russell Mead, Ellis Story, Charles Atwood,
11 Arthur Maplethorpe, Paul Chase, Charles McCorkle, S.M.
12 Wallace, Raymond Webb, and Adolph Pesat; and
 
13     WHEREAS, The purposes that the American Legion stands for
14 are: to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States
15 of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate
16 a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and
17 incidents of our associations in the Great Wars; to inculcate a
18 sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and
19 nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the
20 masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and
21 goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the
22 principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; and to
23 consecrate and sanctify their comradeship by their devotion to
24 mutual helpfulness; and
 
25     WHEREAS, The American Legion was chartered by Congress in
26 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans
27 organization; a community-service organization which now
28 numbers nearly 3,000,000, both men and women, in nearly 15,000
29 American Legion Posts worldwide; these Posts are organized into
30 55 Departments, one each for the 50 states, the District of
31 Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines;

 

 

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1 therefore, be it
 
2     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
4 we congratulate the Antioch American Legion Post No. 748 on the
5 occasion of its 80th anniversary, and we thank the members of
6 the Post for their willingness to serve our country; and be it
7 further
 
8     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9 presented to Antioch American Legion Post No. 748 as an
10 expression of our deep gratitude for each members' service to
11 our country.