Historian Deborah Pedersen

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The history of The American Legion, a U.S. war veterans’ organization headquartered in IndianapolisIndiana, began in ParisFrance, March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand commissioned officers and enlisted men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name “American Legion.

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