There is but one item on the Post Agenda that we have our greatest focus on at this point, our 90th Anniversary Celebration. This event has been a major task that we feel is paramount to our history and that of the American Legion.

It begins the march to our centennial celebration in the year 2019. The planning and preparation of this important event has progressed very satisfactorily. This has occurred through the cooperation of members of the Post, our Ladies Auxiliary, our Sons of American Legion and our sister Post 21. A committee was formed with representation from all of these groups. I am very pleased with how much we have accomplished.

I am certain it will go well weather permitting. Attendance should be at a peak. Our 90th anniversary gives cause for us to reflect in our hearts and minds that the American Legion organization, this post, has sustained from the beginning, the values and initiatives we still promote today. Americanism, children and youth, support for our veterans, their families, the community, state and the nation.

Every effort to continue these values is the responsibility of us all. For Freedom to endure we must embrace these critical values or our freedom will not survive. We built these values, we will not fail, and this is our mission. The American Legion family is alive and well at Post 1. Let us all be proud of it.