Newman Grove American Legion Post #73

06/24/2026

Why support The American Legion?

You are backing the largest U.S. wartime veterans organization, which advocates for veterans' benefits, supports military families, mentors youth, strengthens communities, promotes Americanism, and offeres camaraderie for veterans.

Through its four pillars:
Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation
National Security
Americanism
Children & Youth
The organization directly impacts the lives of veterans and their communities!

The organization is a powerful advocate for veterans’ affairs with Legion initiatives championing the GI Bill and providing free claims assistance for disability benefits.

The Legion Posts can support active-duty personnel by adopting units, providing care packages, and assisting families of deployed service members.

Community & Youth Programs like American Legion Baseball, Boys State, and high school oratorical contests allow post to support and mentor youth.

The local posts offer a supportive, welcoming, and patriotic community for veterans to bond with others who have shared experiences. Membership provides practical, money-saving discounts on services like travel, insurance, and financial products.

06/23/2026

New series for Tuesdays, Know the Code, will be posts with facts about the US Flag and how it is used. Next fact, flying the US flag at night.

06/22/2026

Help others keep up with our events and news by sharing the link to our page with your friends and spreading the word asking everyone you talk to if they are following. We have a hundred, lets get to 200!

06/21/2026

Sunday morning prayer.

06/21/2026

To all the fathers, veterans or not, Happy Fathers Day!

06/20/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18wh7fQ2Hz/

Veterans battle liver cancer with groundbreaking histotripsy at Houston VA, offering non-invasive, hope-filled cancer treatment.

06/20/2026

Summer Solstice 2026: When Is the First Day of Summer?

Check out this great content from The Old Farmer's Almanac!

The Summer Solstice happens on Sunday, June 21, 2026! Find the answers to common questions, like: What is a solstice? Is the solstice the longest day of the year?—and more!

06/19/2026

Remember Everyone Deployed! Very nice tribute song!

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06/19/2026

R.E.D. - Remember Everyone Deployed - The reason for red on Fridays!

06/19/2026

Today is a Federal Holiday and here is the story behind it!

Published at https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/honor/2024/june/the-people-of-texas-are-informed-that-all-slaves-are-free on June 17, 2024.

In April 1865, the Civil War effectively ended with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union Gen. Ulysses S, Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. But the end of the war – nor President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation issued nearly three years earlier, declaring all slaves in the Confederacy as free citizens – didn’t bring and to slavery in Texas, the westernmost Confederate state.

Slavery continued there until Jun 19, 1865, when more than 2,000 Union troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, the Commanding Officer of the District of Texas.

With Granger and his troops came General Orders, No. 3, which read:

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”

June 19 was celebrated by freed Black Americans in Texas as Emancipation Day or Jubilee Day as early as 1866. In 1979, Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth an official holiday, and in June 2021, Congress passed a resolution – signed into law by President Biden on June 17, 2021 – establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.