American Legion Post 126 Board

"The American Legion: Veterans Strengthening America."

The American Legion's vision is to enhance the well-being of America's veterans, their families, our military, and our communities by their devotion to mutual helpfulness. Our local American Legion Post has many efforts underway in Rowan County to support this vision, and they work hard to help our veterans and our community as a whole.

Every Wednesday at 8am, free breakfast is offered for veterans at the post. Their Service Officer is present to help veterans fill out forms for VA medical care. Additionally, they're involved with promoting patriotism among our youth. In collaboration with the Veterans Foundation, they help sponsor monetary awards for the winners of the annual Veteran's Day contest. They sponsor two children's field trips to Washington DC and recently made additional contributions for this year's trip (more detail on page 7). They've also sponsored T-shirts for the Cadet Challenge, a military skills challenge for the Rowan County Senior High School's ROTC program. Around Thanksgiving, they work with the Rowan County school system and DOVES to identify families in need to buy them turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner.

These are just some of the many endeavors our veterans take on to support our community. Active duty service members can join with their first year of dues paid for, at no cost to them.

Board

Larry Porter- Commander

Jimmy Epperhart- First Vice

Randy Ignram- Second Vice

Mike Mackin- Adj

Bill Bolen- Finance officer

Dennis Winburn- Sergeant of Arms

Rupus Williams- Chaplain

Terry Hall and Gerald McDaniels- Service Officer

At large board members:

Larry Law

Woody Clark

Mike Egham