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Hundreds of organizers gathered in Paris March 15-17, 1919, with the goal of supporting veterans who served in the Great War. A committee tasked with naming the new group had a dozen options from which to choose, including the Liberty League and Society of the Great War. American Legion was selected as the working name. It stuck and now, a century later, the organization is celebrating all it has achieved since its founding. And those accomplishments are impressive. The...
