Programs

 

For more than 100 years, the Legion has been the nation’s leading advocate for proper health care and earned benefits for America’s veterans.

The Legion was instrumental in creating the Veterans Administration in 1930 and an ardent supporter of its rise to Cabinet status when it became the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 1989.

 

The nation’s cultural, moral and patriotic values have been under attack for decades, a disheartening trend that continues today.

 

To those who have sworn with their lives to protect America against enemies near and far, national security is a deeply held value.

The past and present threat of terrorist attacks magnifies the importance of this value.