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The American Legion was chartered by
Congress in 1919 as a patriotic,
mutual-help, war-time veterans organization.
A community-service organization which now
numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and
women -- in nearly 15,000 American Legion
Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized
into 55 Departments -- one each for the 50
states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.
The American Legion's
national headquarters is in Indianapolis,
Indiana, with additional offices in
Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of
volunteers serving in leadership and program
implementation capacities in local
communities to the Legion's standing
national commissions and committees, the
national organization has a regular
full-time staff of about 300 employees.
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