The American Legion
IAmerican Legion (dzimwe nguva inonzi "The Legion") yakatanga zvakare muHondo Yenyika I seboka revarume makumi maviri vaishanda muAmerican Expeditionary Forces (AEF) muFrance - AEF Headquarters yakakumbira mahofisi aya kuti aratidze pfungwa pamusoro nzira yekuvandudza maitiro evanhu.
Mumwe mukuru mukuru, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (mwanakomana wedangwe weMutungamiri wechi26), akaita sarudzo ye sangano revanhu veterans. MunaFebruary, 1919, boka iri rakaumba komiti yenguva duku, uye rakasarudza mazana emahofisi vakuru vaiva nekutenda uye kuremekedzwa kwehondo yose. Mwedzi unotevera, anenge anenge 1000 vakuru nevarume vakanyorerwa vakapinda musangano wekutanga wehurongwa, unozivikanwa seParis Caucus. Pamusangano uyu, boka racho rakagamuchira mutemo wenguva pfupi uye zita rokuti "The American Legion."
IAmerican Legion yakarongwa neCongress muna 1919 senyika yekuda nyika, mutauro-mutungamiri wehondo-nguva yevavengi vehondo uye yekutanga yeAmerican Legion muUnited States yaiva Jeneral John Joseph Pershing Post Number 1 muWashington, DC, yakarongeka musi waMarch 7, 1919 , uye akawana gwaro rekutanga rakabudiswa kune imwe nzvimbo yeLegion musi waMay 19, 1919. Kubvira panguva iyo, American Legion yakabva kune boka revarwi vakaneta vehondo yeHondo Yenyika I kuva rimwe remapoka evanhu vasina simba mune zvese vasina hupfumi muUnited States - iAmerican Legion isangano rebasa remunharaunda iro zvino rinodarika mamiriyoni 2,4 mumasangano 14 000 pasi rose.
Nzvimbo idzi dzakarongwa mumatare makumi mashanu: imwe yega yega makumi mashanu, pamwe neDunhu reColumbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico nePhilippine.
Kubvumirwa kweAmerican Legion sarudzo kune vashoma kune avo vanoremekedzwa vanoremekedzwa uye vashandi vemauto veUnited States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard kana Air Force avo vakashanda zuva rimwe chete rekushanda mubasa panguva ipi zvayo inotevera:
Hondo Yenyika I: April 6, 1917 kusvika kuNovember 11, 1918
Hondo Yenyika II: December 7, 1941 kusvika munaDecember 31, 1946 (kunze kwekuti iyo yeMelika Merchant Marine yakagadzirirwa mazuva anoDecember 7, 1941 kusvika muna 16 August 1945)
Hondo yeKorea: June 25, 1950 kusvika munaJanuary 31, 1955
Vietnam Hondo: February 28, 1961 kusvika paMay 7, 1975
1982 Hondo yeLebhanoni neExployment Urgent Fury (Grenada): August 24, 1982 kusvika munaJuly 31, 1984
Basa Rinongoita (Panama): December 20, 1989 kusvika January 31, 1990
Gulf War / War On Terror (Desert Shield, Dutu Dutu, Kushanda Kwekutsungirira Rusununguko, uye Kushanda Iraqi Rusununguko): August 2, 1990 kusvika nhasi
IVFW inotarisa midzi yayo kumashure 1899 kusvika kumasangano maviri ehondo:
American Veterans of Foreign Foreign - yakagadzirirwa veterans veSpain-American War (1898)
National Society of the Army yePhilippines - yakagadzirirwa veterans veFhilipian-American War (aka Philippine Insurrection) (1899-1902)
Idzi mbiri dzakateyiwa semasangano emunharaunda kuti awane kodzero uye kubatsirwe kwebasa ravo, sezvo vazhinji vakange vauya kumusha vakakuvadzwa kana kurwara, uye pakanga pasina chiremba kana veterans 'pensions kwavari; ivo vakasara kuti vazvichengete ivo pachavo.
Veterans Foreign Foreign Wars
VFW yakasikwa musi waSeptember 17, 1914 pamusangano pa Schenley Hotel muPittsburgh, Pennsylvania apo masangano maviri ehondo akabatanidzwa mune imwe, uye zvitsauko zvakaumbwa muColorado, Ohio nePennsylvania.
Pamitatu mitatu inonzi ndiyo yekutanga, sangano renyika reVFW rinoona Denver Post seyokutanga; ikozvino zviri pamutemo "VFW Post 1.
Pakazosvika 1915, nhengo yakakura kusvika 5 000; muna 1936, apo yakava sangano rehurumende-rakarongedzerwa risina purofiti, nhengo yaiva anenge 200 000. Nhasi, nhengo dzinomira pamativi anokwana 1.4 mamiriyoni (kunyange zvazvo, nhengo yeNational muVFWs yawa kubva pamamiriyoni 1.8 muna 2004).
Kuti uve nhengo yeVFW, munhu wacho anofanira kunge ari mugari weUnited States kana kuti nyika ine rukudzo runoremekedzwa kubva muuto reUnited States, kana iye zvino ari kushanda muUnited States Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, kana Coast Guard. Nhengo dzinodawo basa remauto kune dzimwe nyika panguva yekuvhiya kana kukakavara uye kurongeka neArmed Forces Expeditionary Medal, purogiramu yemari (kana ribhoni).
Vose veAmerica Legion neVFW vakawedzera kunze kwenzvimbo yekungova veterans kubatsira veterans pamwe chete - kubva pakuvamba kwavo kupa hupfumi, hukama hwevanhu, uye humwe hutsigiro kune nhengo dzehurumende dzeUnited States dzehondo, varwi vehondo, nevatungamiri vavo, uye vave vatungamiri mune zvekubatanidzwa kwevanhu munzvimbo dzakadai sokurudzira mapoka evechidiki, kubatsira mumakishikiti ezvokudya, nekuzvipira mukutya ropa (kupa mienzaniso shomanana).