District 12 History project
How do you know
where you are going if you don’t know where you have been.
The Legion does a great sales
job but it is up to us to sell folks on joining our Posts to continue the proud heritage of the Legion Family Organizations in our
district.
All 13,000+ Legion posts worldwide, whether chartered in 1919 or
yesterday, have histories and legacies that have contributed to the overall
identity of The American Legion. Each post can convey its legacy by sharing
historical photos, videos and print material on the Legion’s new Centennial
Celebration web page: www.legion.org/centennial
SHARE OUR PROUD HERITAGE WITH EACH OTHER (this includes Units, Squadrons and Chapters too)
(If your post incomplete here,
please send me details to share)
District
Officer History: our past
district officers (HELP, more names are needed).
Legion
Riders in our district (Legion Riders Post 135 disbanded in 2017 but most
of our posts have active chapter)
District
12 Logo: A brief description of the symbols used in our logo.
Here is
a starter for our district. It is
the Post 516 history with a few modifications and district links.
Post 14: It is my understanding from conversations with
Hubert Foster (now deceased) long time commander of the post that it was one of
the very early posts started in the city and met at the old “Veterans Building”
downtown. It was named the “Executive
Post” and its members included many prominent businessmen and politicians.
Post 14 is now chartered as
the PFC Ruth E. Warlick Post in Southlake, Texas
Post 60: chartered as Arlington Post 60 to be a
replacement for Post 467 after it became dormant (details below).
Post 297: chartered as Paul Mansir Memorial Benbrook
Post 356: chartered as
Houston M. Taylor Memorial Azle
Post 379: chartered as
Hurst-Euless-Bedford Post 379 in October 1964 and later renamed H.E.B. Post 379
History
(link to their updated history page: https://www.hebtxpost379.org/history.htm)
Post 467: reactivated and currently chartered as Saginaw Post
467
Post 516: chartered as
Greater Fort Worth Post 516 and Unit 516 in 1964. Sons of the American Legion Squadron 516
chartered in 1975. American Legion
Riders Established (Americanism Committee) 1993 and Organized at Post 516 in
1998. Full history with pictures at http://www.post516.org/history/title.html)
Post 569: chartered as South Fort Worth Post 569
Post 624: chartered as Mansfield Post 624
Post 626: chartered as Harold L. Gregory Memorial Post 626
Post 655: chartered as Haltom City Post 655 and renamed Donald
N. Thompson Haltom City Post 655.
Post 838: chartered as J.E. Armstead Post 838 and renamed
Emanuel L. Young Post 838 (excellent biography
of its namesake and history)
OUR TEXAS TWELFTH DISTRICT COMMUNITY
Soldiers, Settlers and Stockyards
Frontier Post of Fort Worth
by Rusty Baker; NAS Fort Worth JRB Sky Ranger June 6, 2014.
Tarrant
County history from the
Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, formally Carswell Air Force Base history: https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_jrb_fort_worth/about/history.html
136AW.pdf, Texas Air National Guard History: https://www.136aw.ang.af.mil/Resources/History/
HELP FROM THE LIGION FAMILY
Many great articles,
pamphlets and other items are on the http://www.legion.org/ website and a “Capsule History of The
American Legion” that I found in the Officers Manual is
linked here.
Also from the Manual is the
suggestion:
“If possible, include a brief resume of your
community’s history, and especially the part played by that locality in
furnishing the men and women during the wars and conflicts.” For
those with a real fetish, here is a copy of the full
Historian section.
How about a District 12
history project with no prizes or awards.
Send me what you’ve got and
we can include it hub@12dis.org
Write your own American
Legion Post History
Investigate your post
background
Ask questions about Who,
What, Why, When and Where
Who or what was it named for,
and why.
When built, what for and
other previous use (we do not have to tell all).
Let folks know why we are great.
May you have the hindsight to know where you have been, the
foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have
gone too far.
~unattributed