Post 41 is part of a national network of American Legion departments devoted to strengthening the Nation one community at a time.

Post 41, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, is one of over 130 American Legion posts that span the State’s 23 counties and the City of Baltimore. It’s one of nearly 13,000 posts that span the Nation.

The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. Its the nation’s largest wartime veterans service organization, committed to mentoring youth and sponsorship of wholesome programs in our communities, advocating patriotism and honor, promoting strong national security, and continued devotion to our fellow service members and veterans.

As a part of the American Legion Nation, Post 41’s mission and vision is best conveyed in the following preamble. 

“For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100-percent Americanism [freedom, justice, individual rights, and unfenced-in opportunities]; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the great wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness."