The American Legion, The Department of Iowa, Post 298

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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.

Due to the nature of the Congressional Charter, only veterans from a period of combat are eligible to join.

*August 2, 1990 to today (Operation Desert Shield/Storm)
December 20, 1989 to January 31, 1990 (Operation Just Cause - Panama)
August 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984 (Lebanon/Grenada)
February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975 (Vietnam War)
June 25, 1950 to January 31, 1955 (Korean War)
December 7, 1941 to December 31, 1946 (World War II)
April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918 (World War I)

*Because eligibility dates remain open, all members of the U.S. Armed Forces are eligible to join The American Legion at this time, until the date of the end of hostilities as determined by the government of the United States.

U.S. Merchant Marine eligible only from Dec. 7, 1941 to Aug. 16, 1945.

For More Information Contact:

American Legion, Department of Iowa, Marion Post #298
625 31st St., Marion, IA 52302-0194

Tel: 319-377-8320

Internet: post_298@commspeed.net

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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