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13 February Field Trip to the USS Iowa – Register Now!

January 21, 2013
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Join other members of the American Legion District 24 for a field trip to see the USS Iowa! Date: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 (rain or shine) Time: We will depart from Post 283 at 10 AM and return at about 3 PM. Cost: $30, which includes a catered lunch, bus trip, and the battleship tour. […]

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January 2013 Meeting Announcement

January 15, 2013

SAL Members, Happy New Year! This Thursday is our January regular meeting. Dinner will be Tacos Por Favor! We will have another installment of our Living History Program, with Spike Tatton. Spike, as you might recall, spoke to us once before about his service in WWII. This time, he will be talking about his service […]

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January 2013 Sons Bulletin

January 2, 2013

Happy New Year from Commander Hornbaker… Our next meeting is Thursday, January 17th… Shout out to Charles Curtis for all his hard work shopping for gifts for our vets, and to Ed Pellegrini for finding vets to help at SMC… Let’s not focus on what we’ve done, but what we’re going to do, and do them!

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December 2012 Adopt A Platoon Update

December 10, 2012
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On December 4th (with the help of Nicky Casalenuovo) we sent 20 boxes to our platoon of 30 Marines. We were able to include 30 Christmas stockings each filled with the same items (candy canes, chocolate coins, nuts, snacks, cards, ChapStick, hot chocolate, toys, socks, mittens…along with personalized cards from the Legion, sixth grade middle […]

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July/August 2012 Sons Bulletin

July 15, 2012

Commander’s Note… Next month’s meeting details… Sons’ Living History Series recap… Sons Community Support.

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Charles Brudo – Living History Video

February 1, 2012

Charles Brudo was born in France but later emigrated to the US and served his adopted country in World War II in the Army Air Corps, 8th Air Force, 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron, as a turret gunner in the B-17. He also served time as a POW (prisoner of war). This is his story.

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