Post 21 members Tim, Tom, Brad, and Paul recently helped a local citizen gain access to outdoors by building a ramp with material donated by Post 21. The completed ramp allows the senior citizen (who was an avid gardener) with senior citizen caretakers, to visit his garden regularly. This had been a major operation before the ramp was built.
A long time dream of Past Commander Tom “Woody” Visintainer Sr. came true in May when new member John Argust came up with the idea to ask the City of Kenosha for one of their old voting boxes. Tom and others scoured Ebay, local post offices and other strange places trying to secure an old mailbox, but no one ever had any luck. Tom stated that “Now that we have one, local citizens have a convient place to retire the US flag respectfully”. “It didn’t take long to fill up, a couple of times”, said John Argust who has added maintaining the container to his list of things to do.
Creative Designs Custom Signs, LLC donated the custom beautifully done lithographs. Everyone was very surprised and happy about how they turned out. Make sure you support business that support The American Legion. Creative Designs ad is featured in our Red, White, and Blue Pages.
If you live west of Green Bay Road, Friends Hobby Shop / 8501 75th Street / 262 671-0131 has a collection basket in their store so you don’t have to come all the way downtown to retire your flags.
See Joe States Article in the Kenosha News here for more details. You may need an e-subscription.
Take the next step and make muster at one of our monthly meetings. They are on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7pm. We'd sure like to hear a NEW sea/war story or two. Here's a link to some of the benefits of membership...
Do you have a little Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen in you, or a little bit of both? If you have articles, pictures, or ideas on what should or could be on YOUR website, please use the "Contact Us" page to, well, contact us about it!
By the way, we are looking for a few good veterans!
Missing Marines - The author of the Missing Marines website has a link to a book he wrote at the top of the page. Give that link a click, it looks very interesting.
This website is full of information about the Department of Wisconsin. They have a good calendar, and you can read the "Badger Legionnaire" online!
MyLegion is an outstanding way to keep up with the latest benefits of membership! You owe it to yourself to check it out and create an account.
National Headquarters is busy on social media!
This is the GO TO place for Kenosha County Veterans to find out about your benefits, etc, etc!
