American Legion Membership Card

WWI era American Legion Membership Card issued to W. E. Thomas, No. 108, 29 May 1921 who had signed his name in the margin, is a member of The American Legion in good standing, enrolled in Post No. 27.

Preamble of the National Costitution Adopted at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 10 November 1919.

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent. Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War; 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 good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate end sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.