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Tar-- 10 THE LEGION Chaplain Prentice on Actualities And Potentialities (Reprinted from the Berwyn Beacon, Berwyn, Ill., at the especial request of local Legionnaires.) Only you who were in service can appreciate the peculiar conditions un- der which American men lived. Per- haps the greatest need of all was for friendship. This was most keenly felt in France. Strangers in a strange land, embarked upon an adventure of cruel uncertainty, American men quite naturally looked to one another for that which those who spoke a strange tongue could not give. Men knew only this: Fellow Americans thought the same thoughts and spoke the same language. "Buddies" knew neither class distinctions nor caste ties. Out of the good fellowship and warm friendships of the army The American Legion was born. After the Armistice had been signed and the army was waiting to come home, men of vision saw that unless an organization were speedily formed the ties would soon be broken and their possible value lost to America. These same men of vision were idealists, too. They knew that whatever was the prime factor in America's entering the World War, thousands of our soldiers were fired and inspired by a desire to uphold the finest traditions of the nation: like- wise thousands were knights of civ- ilization entering the lists in the com- mon cause of humanity. That friend- ships might be preserved and that idealism might be conserved is the real reason this organization of ex-service men was brought into existence. Out of the friendships and ideals of the army The Legion was born. Because France was the Mecca of all comrades in 1917 and 1918, it was fitting that the organization should take form and breathe the breath of life "over there." However, because every man's heart was in the lines though his body might be elsewhere, it was proper that all men who had seen service, whether at home or overseas, should be eligible for The Legion. It has been necessary to recall so much of our history in order to impress the principles upon which the organization was founded, that from them you may see what the organization has done and what it may and will become. The Legion has every reason to be proud of its life and work since the day of its inception. Its first task was that of inquiring into the needs of its comrades and their families. Unfortunately a grateful nation soon forgets the reason for its gratitude and the needs of those to whom it owes a debt of gratitude. It has been the sacred and solemn duty of The American Legion to fight the blood- less battles of peace in behalf of its comrades whose wounds of body and scars of mind had otherwise been neglected and forgotten. There are those in our own community, bereav- ed and destitute families, bruised and broken bodies of comrades, who have received tender care and financial as- sistance because the local post did not forget and would not allow the nation to forget. This record is no vainglorious boast of achievements; it is but a simple statement of facts. The idealism of war days has been translated into the service of communities to which men returned. It is not too much to say that every worthy community cause has found a friend in The Le- gion. In our own town more than one civic organization or project has asked and received the co-operation and assistance of our own Berwyn Post. 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Were the Legion found- ed on grounds other than those of friendship and idealism one might well fear its power and influence. Bound by a sacred pledge, committed to a fixed policy, this will never be- come a political body. The task still confronting the Legion is discharging in full its obligation to comrades who deserve the sympathy of the nation and have earned the paternal care of the government. This must be done! Then there will still remain much to accomulish before the organ- ziation shall have finished its course. In hundrerds of thousands of Amer- ican communities there is a group of men committed to the care of hu- manity and the safeguarding of America. What a powerful force this can and will become! Each com- munity may be sure that everything which furthers the interests and pro- motes the good feeling of the com- munity will receive the support of this great group of men. 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