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The Post General Membership meeting is at 7:30 PM on the second Monday of the month.

Our dues are $50 a year.

Telephone   319-377-8320

625 31st Street, Marion, IA  52302

To rent the hall for receptions, banquets, or other events,

 please call the post at 319-377-8320.

To view our past meetings, go to  Meetings Training and Links 

View our May 2025 meeting    https://youtu.be/Pj7LmJSmYu8

Welcome to American Legion Post 298 of Marion Iowa.  We are Iowa's biggest post, and proud of our facility and our members of the Entire Legion Family.  Post, Unit, Squadron and Riders Chapter 298 hope you will come visit us.

Still serving: it’s who we are

In 1919, The American Legion was founded on four pillars: Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation, National Security, Americanism, and Children & Youth. Each of these pillars encompasses a variety of programs that benefit our nation’s veterans, its service members, their families, the youth of America and ordinary citizens. These programs make a difference in hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

Our organization’s positions and programs are guided by resolutions passed by American Legion National Convention delegates, and by committee and commission members who represent 2.5 million wartime veterans and their families. These programs, and the men and women who take the time to perform them allow The American Legion to make a difference on the local, state and national levels.

It’s who we are and what we do.

Find out more here.

To join: www.legion.org/join 

Beginning July 1, 2011, all members of The American Legion were given the option to renew their membership and pay their dues online for the following  membership year. To learn more about the procedures, visit www.legion.org/renew to view instructional videos.

To rent the hall for receptions, banquets, or other events,

 please call the post at 319-377-8320.

May 2025 newsletter

Past Commander Jim Crowley's video message about our post can be seen by clicking here.

If you struggle with depression, this is a group that can help.  Click here.

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

The American Legion stands for a strong America. There is no better way to bring this about than to work with the youth of our land in preparing them to meet the tasks they will face in the years to come. Through its many youth activities, The American Legion is playing the leading role in developing future citizens of America. 

Our Beginnings

  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. 

Who We Are

Since its chartering by Congress in 1919, The American Legion has been based on four founding principles:

• Service to Veterans

• Care and Education of Children

• Americanism

• Strong National Defense 

These four founding principles are being implemented through some 57 Legion programs by Veterans who truly care about the fate of our nation and the kind of world which is left to our posterity. If you are a Veteran, "Get Involved" and continue to serve and preserve the nation you defended.

What We Do

Our Post strives to be much more than a club with a bar, but to give to the Community, State, and Nation.  What we have done in a typical year:

Donated classroom flags to Marion and Linn-Mar schools

1550 hours donated to VA Medical Center in Iowa City, Iowa

25 needy veterans helped

120 units of blood given

32 funeral honors given to veterans who need not be members

2 boys sent to Boys State

Sponsor Boy Scout Troop 58 and Cub Scout Pack 58

Conducted competition for American Legion Oratorical Contest

Conducted 5th grade Flag Essay Contest

Awarded over $4,000 in scholarships

Gave 15 Flag folding and etiquette programs at schools

Posted colors at all Marion and Linn-Mar High School football games

Sponsored 2 Legion Baseball teams

Provided color guards at various community and metropolitan functions

Members logged over 25,000 volunteer hours in the community

Participated in welcome back celebration for all Honor Flights

Provided Welcoming groups to Soldiers Returning from combat

Provided memberships to over 15 active duty / deployed service members

Participated in Operation Package Drop contributing money and donating supplies sent to deployed soldiers

Donated funds to:

Marion Parks and Recreation

Marion Library

Marion Heritage Center

American Red Cross

Foundation 2, children at risk agency

Four Oaks, mental health center

Tanager Place, child advocacy agency

Special Olympics

Camp Courageous

VA Disabled Veteran's Van

American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund

Cedar Rapids Freedom Foundation

Willis Dady Homeless Shelter

Links

 http://www.legion.org      The American Legion National web site

 http://www.ialegion.org  The Department of Iowa web site

https://sites.google.com/site/al2iowa/    2nd District web site 

http://www.linncounty.org/154/Veteran-Affairs    Linn County Veteran's Assistance site

https://www.dav.org/      The Disabled American Veterans 

 https://www.vfw.org/      The Veterans of Foreign Wars

 https://www.va.gov/     The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

 https://www.pownetwork.org/     The P.O.W. Network site

 https://www.iowanationalguard.com/SitePages/Index.aspx   The Iowa National Guard web site.

https://www.MyLegion.org    MyLegion

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."