Pennsylvania is the largest Department in the American Legion, with almost 250,000 members strong. The American Legion is an organization that is vested in America, veterans and their families, community, as well as our Nation’s youth.

The American Legion is a powerful voice in Washington. We are dedicated to preserving the rights we have earned for veterans since the Legion’s beginning in 1919. Through great dedication we also look towards the future to protect and fight for rights of our current servicemen and women because just like them, WE ARE STILL SERVING AMERICA.

Preamble to the Constitution of
The American Legion For God and Country

we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the great wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.