Post Commander
Scott Sundsvold
In a digital age The American Legion should endeavor to be the leader of the VSO community by having a virtual post where our veterans can sign up. Our members should have the option of belonging to a virtual post in addition to a “brick and mortar” post. This generation is more accustomed to getting e-mails and doing research online. As such they may welcome getting e-mails periodically from The American Legion. We can send: weekly reports, recent testimony, legislative alerts, and other veteran related news. We will inform all of our virtual post members of matters their representative support or do not support. As a consequence of regularly using e-mail these members will be the ones taking action and sending letters, calling or sending e-mails to their representatives. Together we form an unmistakable presence to advocate for veterans’ rights. We are the new chapter of the founding ideals that is The American Legion
Post Adjutant
Chad Martin
As the first chartered Post of The American Legion, the Pioneer Post, George Washington Post 1 has now, once again, found itself in a position to take the reins as a leader for change. The current Information Revolution has made it possible for the Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) to reach out across the globe to the American men and women who presently fight for our liberties on battlefields in Iraq, Afghanistan and now in the Horn of Africa. Never before have the VSO community seen the opportunities that the World Wide Web may provide. This "Virtual Post" is the guiding light of a new era. May we promote the "Four Pillars" and enlighten the veteran community together.
1st Vice Commander
Alec Petkoff
It is about time veterans staked their own e-ground. If you think this is all about modernizing and re-branding the image of the veteran, you're right. While The American Legion, as well as other Veteran's Service Organizations, have been steadfastly serving veterans and their communities, most people's image of vets are male, chain-smoking, beer-bellied barflies. We are committed to a Renaissance of the American veteran. We are men and women. We are in our 20's, 30's and 40's, not just our 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. We are all originally from different parts of the world, but all of us call ourselves Americans. All of us took a vow to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and through our service, have earned the right to call each other comrade. This post is your post. Welcome.
2nd Vice Commander
Jacob Gadd
Cheers Mate!This website is unique given Post 1's historical significance and commitment to our nation's veterans in the past to connecting to our younger veterans of today. During Vietnam, the draft brought many soldiers from the same community to the war and when they returned home, they all joined the same post. With an all volunteer military now, many transitioning soldiers return to communities and lack that common bond.
This post is an outlet that you can join and learn about your veterans' benefits, stay active on veterans' affairs issues and uphold the traditions of serving our nation's finest. You can share your military stories, challenges and best moments. Membership for this post is thriving, influential, cutting-edge and welcomes you.
Post Historian
Joseph Wilson
It is the responsibility of the Post 1 Historian to preserve and compile the records of the Post, as well as maintain an account of historical and current interests. With the constant changing of technology, every medium has to adjust to communicate to those who subscribe. Though many things change, history remains the same in one state; it is constant in that it streamlines adjacent the hands of time to provide a base of what was, to an emission of the inevitable…Stay tuned.
And finally this is our home:
1608 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
Telephone: 202/861-2700, Fax: 202/861-2728
For anyone who is alone, without God and without Country, the weight of days is dreadful, and without ethics he is a wild beast loosed upon this world. His Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better, to live for the last judgment therein every day, in every act of rebellion to express his nostalgia for the innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-albert camus
I belong to a local post, post 484, in Cincinnati Ohio. But I rarely get to visit home so I am lending a helping hand to this very first virtual post hoping that it will attract the veterans in cyber space... I believe that this is a good opportunity for all of us to come together and exchange ideas and help everyone... and watch The American Legion walk into the next century.
Contributing editor:
Matt Grills, US Navy
