Harvey d. Johnson American legion post 295

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of American; to maintain law and order; to foster an perpetuate a one hundred per cent 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 the posterity the principle of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

Preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion