🇺🇸 Last chance for your flags! 🇺🇸 A flag retirement box from American Legion Greenlawn Post1244 is available at Chestnut Hill until 2/1 to drop off your old American flags. Next month, the box will move to Melville before circulating through all Huntington libraries: nenpl.org/media/document…

Just now: the Senate unanimously approved burn pit legislation that would offer access to Veterans Affairs health care to every combat veteran who served after November 1998 with a discharge date after Sept. 11, 2001. Background: stripes.com/veterans/2022-…

#OTD in 1945, 60,000 Marines and Sailors landed on the island of Iwo Jima after three days of naval and air bombardment. The Japanese defenders awaiting them were dug into bunkers deep within the volcanic rocks.

Legacy Scholarship allows Navy veteran’s daughter to pursue dreams legion.org/legacyscholars…

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American Legion calls for Senate to pass Honoring Our PACT Act legion.org/commander/2554…

Veteran Warriors one page summary of the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers updates and status answers some of your most frequently asked questions. #PFACF #VeteranCaregiver #VACaregiverProgram #Veteran #VACaregiver #CaregiverProgram

Operation Enduring Care gofund.me/df86ca42

ICYMI: The Military Family Wellness Center and Man O’War Project are looking for a few more #NYC area #veterans for their July Equine Therapy program. This 8-week program starts soon! If interested, see info on the flier👇.

Local veterans... interested?

Legion: Senate action on PACT Act ‘absolutely unacceptable’ legion.org/veteranshealth…

Veterans call rejection of toxic-exposure bill ‘a slap in the face’ stripes.com/veterans/2022-…

Congratulations to the delegates of the 2022 Boys and Girls State. These young future leaders spent a week learning about the rights, responsibilities, duties, and privileges of being an empowered citizen (1/2)

The boys and girls were all sponsored by American Legion Greenlawn Post 1244.

Have an American Flag and don't know what to do with it? Bring it to our Flag Drop Box (Melville Building) – Provided by American Legion Greenlawn Post1244 of Greenlawn. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 All flags will be disposed of in a ceremony that is befitting their status as the symbol of our great country.

Last Saturday, we celebrated the 1 year anniversary of our first-ever Ruck the Reserve on the National Mall. Over the last year, we’ve hosted a series of Rucks to celebrate key steps of progress toward the development of the Memorial. Visit our link in bio to for our Ruck toolkit

Master Sgt. Richard Stayskal, the soldier whose story moved Congress to change a more than 70-year-old law to allow service members to file medical malpractice claims against the Defense Department, had his own claim denied this month. stripes.com/theaters/us/20…