{"id":26,"date":"2019-03-27T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2020-01-02T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:41:05","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-left has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\"><strong>Our mission may be best articulated with the Preamble of the Constitution of the American Legion, which reads:   For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To maintain law and order<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great Wars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To promote peace and good will on earth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>To consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission may be best articulated with the Preamble of the Constitution of the American Legion, which reads: 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 foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism To maintain law and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/?page_id=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Mission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wp-image-borders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowspringsamericanlegion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}