A New Army is Born on the Ashes of the War

It was finally over, the Bosch had been beaten
or more accurately they had been humiliated.
The Americans felt with their added might a cretin

would agree it was their win. They were elated.

The French scoffed at the idea; it was their war

and America had helped, perhaps,

but the French had contained Germany, the whore

who had risen to be put down by all the chaps.

That is, those chaps who made up the Allies.

In Paris when it was done they toasted each other,

and after the toasting had reached the kies,

the Americans had formed a Legion brother to brother.

The French had their foreign legion, you know,

so the doughboys said we need our Legion.

That's how Post number one in Paris would grow

to the American Legion, veteran's group one.

They decided that each state would number its

Posts and be called Departments. National would be in Indianapolis and all would give the government fits

if veterans or their families they did sin.

Though they knew after their war experience

that war was always a lesson in horor first hand,

they also realized their country might convince

them to come to its aid if someone threatened the land.

So though they fought the war to end all war,

events born in the excess of the Versailles treaty,

and the political brilliance of Hitler whom we abhor,

formed the Third Reich and trashed the treaty.

Legionaires with eyes filled with tears of pride

saw their sons rise up to defend our assaulted

land. Proud, but there were tears of fear for their ride

toward deadly danger. The kids couldn't be faulted.

When they had brought the war of the Axis

to a bloody halt and claimed their own sweet peace,

they did as their Dad's had and formed a nexus

from war to the protection of of veterans in peace.

They took care of the injured and the children

and veteran's wives or widows every day.

The Legion became the instrument that when

it spoke represented vets at work and at play.

The American Legion out of war was for peace born

and works for vets and their families every day.

It now focuses on those in places awfully forlorn

like Iraq and Afighanistan, so new vets have their say!