Post 6 Wins State Recognition – Web Site Award
Chapel Hill Post No. 6, American Legion, was honored this month at the Department of North Carolina Mid-Winter Conference. Our post won First Place in the Web Site Award competition.
Read moreChapel Hill Post No. 6, American Legion, was honored this month at the Department of North Carolina Mid-Winter Conference. Our post won First Place in the Web Site Award competition.
Read moreEd Gill has a story to tell. It is the story of his father, a Marine who was killed at Iwo Jima. Ed was just three years old when he died a combat casualty.
Read moreThe Orange County Veterans Service Office is hosting a Job Fair in Hillsborough on March 25th at 10 am.
Read moreWith any local remembrance of the liberation of German concentration camps, there comes to mind Robert F. Patton. Robert was very active with his military unit association and worked well into his 90’s as an activist supporting remembrance of The Holocaust.
Read moreTroop 505 and Venture 505 are holding a Court of Honor on Wednesday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. All post members are invited and encouraged to attend.
Read moreWe were pleased to host the District 12 Oratorical Contest at our post. We were supported by many members, our Ladies Auxiliary and by members of Mebane Post 95 and Durham Post 7. Ms.Oratorical Contest CH (2) – Copy Liduviana Veintimilla won district honors.
Read moreSet your calendars for December 7th for a Salute to Hillsborough Veterans from Revolutionary War to Vietnam War. If you served, then this means you!
Read moreFor American Legionnaires, Veterans Day is very important. It is our opportunity to remember and recognize the contributions of our fellow servicemen and women. They have served their country, now they are actively serving in their community. Veterans are everywhere and you may be working with one and not even know it.
Read moreIt is with regret that we share the news that one of our former Memorial Day guest speakers, Colonel Saul Strauss, U.S. Army, Medical Dental Corps, passed away yesterday at the age of 95. Colonel Strauss served as an oral surgeon in the U.S. Army Dental Corps, but he performed in combat as a battlefield Field Surgeon. He served his country for 37 years and made Chapel Hill his home.
Read moreThe Durham VAMC is giving local veterans flu shots at our October 12th meeting. The shots will be administered from 6-7 pm, just before our dinner.
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