The American Legion, The Department of Iowa, Post 298

Post 298 Information The Post now has Free WiFi.

Our Current Leadership	Legion History	Legion Membership Requirements
Children and Youth	Convention Flagpole Rings	Marion Veterans Memorial
Preamble to the Constitution	Post Constitution and ByLaws	American Legion Riders
Post Pictures	Newsletters	Rent our hall
Post Homes	Past Commanders	Honor Flights Cedar Rapids

HOT Notes:

1. We will host a benefit on 12 May for the new Veterans Outreach Center in Cedar Rapids. The activities include a band and raffle. Donations are requested to help fund this center that focuses on the plight of our homeless veterans.

2. Honor Flights will return on 24 April and 5 June. Being at the airport around 9 to welcome these WWII vets home is as rewarding to those who do it, as it is to the veterans returning.

Attention Legionnaires and Auxiliary Members.

Do you have a relative that is a senior in high school? They may be eligible for a merit award presented by Unit 298 American Legion Auxiliary or a scholarship presented by the Legion . Please click here to view and print out the Auxiliary application and here to view the Legion Application. The requirements are listed in each application.

Post 298 Children and Youth Activities

Many opportunities exist for youth involvement at your local American Legion Post located at 625 31st Street in Marion; High School students will want to check out scholarship opportunities described on our Oratorical Contest page while 5th Graders will be interested in our Flag Essay contest. Both are yearly events. If you are a boy who has completed 11th grade and are interested in learning more about government the information located on the Boys State page is for you. For girls there are volunteer opportunities as a Legion Auxiliary Junior and American Legion Auxiliary runs an annual Girls State that has the same goals as Boys State - Citizenship and learning about our government and it's processes.

Additionally, Post 298 gives out two scholarships each year in the spring. Applications for the coming year will be available at the Legion Post in January. To be eligible you must be a son, daughter, stepson, stepdaughter, grandson, granddaughter, step grandson or step granddaughter of a Post 298 Legion member.

Click on each event / opportunity to go to it's page!

Boy's State

Oratorical Contest

5th Grade Flag Essay Contest

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We Shall Never Forget!

President Abraham Lincoln as stated in the Gettysburg Address

"From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the
last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."

15 April, 2012 Last update