Tuesday Dec 02
• MEETING
8:00pm-9:30pm William Merritt Hallock Post 155 Meeting MAP

Friday Dec 05
• COUNTY MEETING
8:30pm-10:30pm Suffolk County American Legion Meeting Wilson Ritch Post 432

Sunday Dec 07
• PEARL HARBOR SERVICE
12:00am-1:00pm 12:00 noon at Raynor Beach Park MAP

Officers List:

Commander:
Louis Brida
1st Vice Commander:
Michael Lowis
2nd Vice Commander:
Ilona Torraca
3rd Vice Commander:
Paul Attard
Adjutant:
Paul Attard
Service Officer:
Wayne Brew
Sergeant At Arms:
Daniel Pierce
Chaplain:
Rich Scola
Treasurer:
Robert Shadler
Judge Advocate:
Edward Lane
Historian:
Daniel Pierce
Compliance Officer:
Bill Bouklas
Homeland Security:
James Traynor
Membership:
Robert Shadler

Links Section

	AMERICAN LEGION SUFFOLK COUNTY
	AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK
	AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
	AMERICAN LEGION EMBLEM SALES
	U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS WEBSITE
	VETERANS EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
	MILITARY TIMES
	MILITARY.COM
	VOITURE 713 40/8

In mid May 1926, with a bit of prodding from legionnaires in nearby communities, a group of veterans in the village of Lake Ronkonkoma decided to start their own Legion post. Shortly thereafter those veterans built both a place and identity. Eight years after their military service of 1917-1919, in accordance with the structure of the already functioning national organization, they organized a local Legion unit. Since the end of the war, several of these veterans had been expressing interest both in honoring their war dead and in keeping their wartime comradeship alive. In that spirit, they named their new post William Merritt Hallock after one of their departed brothers in combat, a twenty-four year old soldier from Lake Ronkonkoma who had been killed in the trenches of France. Through an eyewitness account, the community knew of Hallock’s violent death on the battlefield at Belleau Wood, and of his unrecoverable body due to a direct hit by an artillery shell.

William Merritt Hallock