Thunderclap for Veterans

Dear Post Officer, It’s an honor and a pleasure to serve as your new American Legion National Commander. As an organization, we have many priorities, but today I am writing to enlist your support for the highest priority for our future:  MEMBERSHIP. Every American Legion post faces membership challenges, but we must connect with veterans on a level that we all share – a desire to serve. Whether it is as a community volunteer, at church or with a little league team – service is at the core of every veteran. For many of our veterans, it’s a challenge to find a place that provides the same sense of accomplishment or mission fulfillment that they had while wearing the uniform. That place can be The American Legion. Specifically, it can be your post. So today, I am asking you to take a pledge and encourage all the members in your post to join you in recruiting one new member. If each of us does this, we could double the size of The American Legion. By Sept. 16th – the date The American Legion received its federal charter nearly a century ago – signify your pledge by becoming a part of my Thunderclap. What’s Thunderclap? Thunderclap is a tool that allows thousands of people to share the same message at exactly the same time. People sign up on the Thunderclap website and give permission to share a single message on Facebook and Twitter at a specified time. Ours is located here: #JointheForce Thunderclap Website If you and enough others support our Thunderclap, we will reach thousands of people and let everyone know that a ‘Legion’ of veterans working together is a force to be reckoned with! Our voice is strong, but it can be stronger. We are making an impact, but we can always do more. The only way we can make major differences for individuals, communities, our states and nation is to work together. Please use social media to spread the word. We want all veterans to use the hashtag #JointheForce and make our American Legion bigger, stronger and better able to achieve our mission! Sincerely, Charlie Schmidt National Commander