Russell County Veteran's American Legion Post #208

05/26/2025

Russell county veterans post 208 is closed Do not give money or gifts to this group

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas may all your wishes come true

10/17/2022

Always liked Morgan Freeman but he is officially now my favorite actor 🐝

12/18/2019

Learn Our History Today: On December 17, 1944, During World War II, U.S. General Henry C. Pratt issued Public Proclamation no. 21 which officially ended the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans. Earlier in the war, just months after Pearl Harbor in February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the removal of people from parts of country known as “Military Areas,” or “Exclusion Zones.” This essentially came to mean the U.S. West Coast, which was considered highly susceptible to Japanese invasion.

There local military commanders were given complete discretion to remove whomever they considered to be threats to U.S. safety. They ended up removing mainly people of Japanese descent, who because of their background, were considered to be disloyal. These displaced Japanese-Americans were moved to remote internment camps scattered throughout the country, where for more than two years they were forced to endure often very poor living conditions and frequent mistreatment.

Finally, in December 1944, the U.S. government realized that the threat of Japanese invasion was no longer a reality, and the Japanese in the internment camps were released to their homes. However, the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans was not forgotten, and in 1988, President Ronald Reagan authorized a bill giving recompense to all the surviving internees and an apology from the U.S. Government.

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12/01/2019

Good Morning Y'all

11/28/2019

This Thanksgiving, we need at least 871 more grateful Americans to thank our troops before midnight.

11/28/2019