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Lake City Reporter | By TONY BRITT on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 First time Lake City, Jasper, Branford groups held joint event. Legionnaires from around the area gathered at American Legion Post 57 for a historic installation service which also featured read more >

Cape Coral Breeze | By Staff | Jun 28, 2024 Local American Legion Riders recently joined a Florida statewide effort to help end veteran suicide. Called “PROJECT: VetRelief Suicide Prevention Initiative,” they raised over $330,000. Florida has almost a million veterans and read more >

Celebrating his 100th birthday, WW II veteran Bill Keegan blows out the candles on the cake held by gold star father Ken Dale at the American Legion Post 39 on Saturday, June 1, 2024, in Vero Beach.  >> Read Full read more >

By VERONICA WERNICKE, Daily Sun Senior Writer May 17, 2024 Updated May 20, 2024 Sixty-eight veterans were welcomed home by a sea of cheering friends and family decked out in red, white and blue. For Stu Robinson, a U.S. Air Force veteran, read more >

A group of veterans from the American Legion are grabbing their helmets and boots for a motorcycle ride to bring awareness to the staggering rates of suicide among veterans. One of the participants raising money for Project: Vet Relief and read more >

A rented limousine transports World War II veteran Arthur Hobbs of Edgewater to the American Legion Post 285 at 4497 U.S. 1, in Edgewater for a surprise party to celebrate his 100th birthday on Saturday, April 20, 2024. His limo read more >

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Romi White The 2024 Gold Star Families Memorial Ride, a weeklong ride honoring Gold Star families, started April 12 at American Legion Post 382 in Navarre. Riders gathered at Post 382 then proceeded to Veterans Memorial Park read more >

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — On Sunday, Feb. 18, the American Legion Riders, which is part of the American Legion are putting on a breakfast for anyone who wants to come. It will cost you $10 a plate but the money read more >

Cape News  /  American Legion riders kick off ‘Winter Stamping Tour’ | By Staff | Nov 6, 2023 How would you like to support our Veterans while patronizing businesses that you probably already frequent? Now you can. American Legion Post 90 Cape Coral is read more >

BY VERONICA WERNICKE, Daily Sun Senior Writer Oct 15, 2023 The American Legion Post 347 Riders Chapter’s annual 9/11 dance always is an emotional event, but when they presented a K-9 to K9s for Warriors, there wasn’t a dry eye read more >

The American Legion SEP 20, 2023  View Photo Gallery Three years ago, Florida’s American Legion Riders started their Seven Bridges POW/MIA Remembrance Day Ride & Ceremony. Around 160 riders and 40 passengers took part in the ride, which starts at read more >

Florida American Legion Riders sponsored the Seven Bridges POW/MIA Remembrance Ride and Ceremony at the National POW/MIA Memorial in Jacksonville, Fla. Photo by Moriah McNutt/The American Legion Florida American Legion Riders stand at attention as “Taps” is sounded during the read more >

By Steven B. Brooks AUG 29, 2023 The American Legion Riders went out on a record note in fundraising for The American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund for the final time. With more than $880,000 being donated on The American Legion National read more >

By Steven B. Brooks AUG 22, 2023  View Photo Gallery During The American Legion Department of Florida convention in June, Legionnaire Tim Morris remembers a couple coming up to him and asking him if he was OK. Morris had been physically read more >

By Steven B. Brooks AUG 19, 2023  View Photo Gallery The American Legion Legacy Run is in its final year of fundraising for The American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund. But the ride’s chief road captain, National American Legion Riders Chairman Mark Clark, read more >

The American Legion JUL 25, 2023 Gabriel Bostwick, a 12-year-old who is in home hospice care while battling terminal cancer, wanted a chance to see Santa Claus and feel the holiday spirit one more time. His community, including multiple American read more >

The American Legion | FEB 08, 2023 American Legion Department of Florida 16th District Commander Eric Nestler has met veterans who utilize service dogs. He’s seen the impact the dog can make on the veteran’s life. He also knows how read more >

The American Legion – Last spring, flooding hit the Columbia and Suwannee County Toys for Tots chapter’s collection center at the Florida Gateway Fairgrounds in Lake City. News reports had more than 50 boxes of donations being ruined, along with damage read more >

Formal American Legion meeting normally include a reference to U.S. servicemembers either consider prisoners of war or missing in action, as noted in Resolution 288. And they should, says Atlantic Beach, Fla., Post 316 Commander Denny Luke. But the American Legion read more >

Mary Baer, 5, 6 & 10 p.m. anchor | News4JAX | Published: September 22, 2020 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A retired Navy veteran in Jacksonville should sleep easier now that a new roof has been put over his head at his read more >