Fairmount Post 85
Since 1946
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Notices
Meetings 3rd Sunday of month at 10:00am
The next regularly scheduled meetings will be Sept 20, Oct 18 and Nov 15. All members are encouraged to attend.
Awesome meat raffles every Sunday with fresh prizes from Shaw's Meat Market. Stop in and have some fun! Raffles start at 4:00pm.
Meat Raffle every Sunday at 4:00pm
Hall and Pavilion rentals open to the public
For rates and information about renting the hall or pavilion for a function, please call Post 85 at
401-300-2971
Drop off your old or unserviceable flags at Post 85 where they will be properly retired.
Post 85 always accepts unserviceable flags
New T-Shirts are here!
All new for summer, the new official Post 85 T-Shirts are
in! Now with a full color logo on the front. Only $15, available at Post 85.
MEMBER APPRECIATION DAY
Every Thursday from 12 - closing
American Legion Post 85 and
Friends of Fairmount Members get
50 cents off all drinks.
Not a member? Ask any Post Officer or bartender for an application.
Pledge of Allegiance to The Flag
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
The Pledge of Allegiance received official recognition by Congress in an Act approved on June 22, 1942. However, the pledge was first published in 1892 in the Youth's Companion magazine in Boston, Massachusetts to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, and was first used in public schools to celebrate Columbus Day on October 12, 1892.
In its original version, the pledge read "my flag" instead of "the flag of the United States." the change in the wording was adopted by the National Flag Conference in 1923. The rationale for the change was that it prevented ambiguity among foreign-born children and adults who might have the flag of their native land in mind when reciting the pledge.
The phrase "under God" was added to the pledge by a Congressional act approved on June 14, 1954. At that time, President Eisenhower said:
"in this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war."
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Preamble to the American Legion Constitution
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 one hundred percent Americanism;
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 goodwill 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.
