Why I created this blog

I have spent the last year and a half trying
to get someone in The American Legion or the Auxiliary units
to acknowledge that this is behavior unbecoming a Legionnaire and to indicate that the Legion does not condone or assert these values. 

I have been totally ignored even though all the Legionnaires, men and women alike, to whom I have shown the pin and the correspondence, have agreed that it is at worst reprehensible and at best totally unacceptable. 

The Legion leaders have never acknowledged that this was a severe lapse of good judgment on Foster’s part nor had the grace to express any regret. 

Instead they steadfastly support him. Also note that in a recent kerfluffle between two veterans (who both had been drinking) current National Northeast Vice-Commander James Hale indicated that such disrespect to a veteran was an outrage and he would like to ban the offending veteran from participation in any patriotic events or entering Legion property for life! Why is this one Marine more important than thousands of other veterans? 

 The kind of disrespect indicated by the National Commander’s distribution of the pins and his accompanying demeaning comments has not garnered any such concern….”He did nothing wrong.” There seems to be a severe double standard here.

I cannot be an Auxiliary member unless I have a veteran as a close relative. In that regard, the National Commander and his staff are the chief executive officers of the organization which my organization exists to support. 

It is my sincere hope that the Posts, Departments, Units and Detachments who learn of this underlying attitude at National will contact the National Vice Commanders and NEC members and insist that the situation be remedied by making the National Judge Advocate and Adjutant accountable, and if necessary replaced, and that National Commander Wong and the NEC will see to it that the bylaws assure that Legionnaires who violate the standards of conduct of the Legion will be appropriately censured.