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.

National Convention Parade Flagpole Rings

We have them ALL!

I've asked others if they have all the flagpole rings, and have been told that they probably do, but they just throw them in a drawer somewhere. Post 298 has them on their Past Commander board, next to the name of the Commander. We have blank spots on the poles for the years during WW II (1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945) that no convention was held.

This is our current board. For the Commanders that have held the post more than one term, there are two rings next to their name.

The star indicates that the Past Commander is deceased.

This is a picture of the whole current board. Room for growth!

This shows the last two columns of the older board..

This is the whole older board. Our 1955 Commander is our Senior Living Past Commander.

We'd love to hear from other Legion Posts about how many parade rings they have.

Please drop us an e-mail at 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