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Events
There is going to be an 8th District Meeting The Commander's Tour to meet the newly elected State officers. It will be sponsered by Post 77 in Lexington, Tennessee, Saturday August 14, 2010 at 1pm at the Grand China Restaurant at 738 Church Street, West Lexington, TN. It will be a buffet luncheon at $9.50 per person. In attendence will be the newly elected State Commander, West Tennessee Vice commander, 8th District Commander, State Adjutant and the State Memebership Chairman. For further information call either James Beck, District Commander 731-610-2416 or Rex McBee, Post Comannder 731-968-3927
Shiloh American Legion Post 28 will hold a Flag Disposal Ceremony August 14th in Savannah, Tennessee in the Wayne Gerald River Park at 7:00pm. The public is invited. We will be respectfully burning the flags the public has been putting in our Post Flag Collection located at the Kroger Store in Savannah.
PRESS RELEASE
In the year 2000 Congress passed an act that any qualified veteran that passed away their family may request a Military Funeral. These Ceremomies may consist of just a Flag Folding Ceremony and Taps, or one to also include a Firing Sguad.
Up to this point these ceremonies ave been performed by our local National Guard. They getting over-whelmed because many of our WWII veterans are passing away. It's getting difficult to get to all these funerals because they cover almost all of West Tennessee. For this reason they have requested the local American Legion Posts to form a Color/Honor Guard Team to fill in when they get over-booked. We have formed an American Legion Honor Guard Team and have already had the great experience of holding sevgeral Military Funerals. We need more volunteers to join the Honor Guard to ensure that we have enough personnel to cover a military funeral. The Army has given us nine M1 Rifles and we have purchased a Cermonial Bugle as well as a new Post and American Flag & staffs.