American Legion Veterans in Chapel Hill, NC
Every service, every war or conflict, every uniform, and every vehicle worth remembering is present at this EXTENSIVE collection. Now, before you click the link below, take a walk to the kitchen or refrigerator for the beverage of your choice. You are in for a long ride. A ride down memory lane. I’ll bet you will bookmark, share, and rewatch this video more than once. Here goes….enjoy.
Read moreOn Saturday, January 9th, 2021, the American Legion Chapel Hill Post 6 Honor Guard Team, commanded by Lewis Atwater, performed its first presentation in the community. It was an honor to share our wonderful Honor Guard with the Azalea Estates retirement community as they celebrated their Grand Opening and Flag Raising at their new facility located on Estes Drive in Chapel Hill.
Read moreWe have been talking about Legion Riders at Post 6 for a number of years now, but we wound the spring, but it never quite sprung. Commander Bill Munsee wrote, “Some of you may know I have been trying to start an American Legion Riders Club for the past five or six years without great success…Seems like every time we are ready to “pull-the-trigger” one of our riders has to drop out for one reason or another. With the new influx of younger Legionnaires, there has been an increase in the number of potential motorcycle riders and we are going to start again.
Read moreCommander Bill Munsee announced in a December Newsletter that we would hold a holiday food drive. He wrote, “Vice Commander, Dave Chandler, ran this by me the other day and I thought it was a good idea. He recommended that we do a food drive…
Read moreJerome “Jerry” M. Pilarski, Sr., passed away on December 4th from an illness, not COVID-related. His funeral service is at the Catholic Community of St. Thomas More, 940 Carmichael St., Chapel Hill. The service starts at 9 a.m.
Read moreThe story about the Bedford Boys is a tale of country kids who signed up for the Reserve to receive extra pay for weekend drills. Pearl Harbor changed all of that and the men of Bedford, Virginia, was ordered to active duty and that led to a D-Day Landing. In 2011 a Chapel Hill High School 10th-grader, Gracian D’Cruz, asked the Chapel Hill Knights of Columbus and other local veteran groups to help sponsor a project to fund the National D-Day Memorial. It was in financial trouble and local students wanted to help. Local vets led by American Legionnaires Jerry Pilarski and Lee Heavlin worked to help the students. Chapel Hill Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9100 also provided funding and support and, in June students and veterans travelled to Bedford for the 67th D-Day Commemoration events. Gene and Louise Drogos also made the trip.
Read moreIt was Veterans Day. On Wednesday, November 11th, 2020, at about 11:00 hours, post members and families departed their homes
Read moreThe American Legion is federally chartered, which authorizes the as-yet unincorporated organization to proceed to the adoption of a constitutionl
Read more“PH” Craig, a long time Chapel Hill resident, has been making significant donations to the North Carolina Transportation Museum. These are gifts from the heart as they are items from his former extensive collection of historic vehicles. His story is one of sharing and giving back, so that others may see first hand North Carolina and American History.
Read moreThe award-winning documentary “Boys State” follows four young men during a week at Texas Boys State in 2018, the year after their predecessors voted to secede from the U.S. That event prompted filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss to make the film, which follows Ben Feinstein, Steven Garza, Robert McDougal and Rene Otero through the program.
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