American Legion Post 201 - West Jefferson, Ohio

10/06/2026

The West Jefferson American Legion Post 201 serves the community by raising the Flag at West Jefferson home football games. This is in support of the Jefferson Local School District's patriotic spirit and it reminds students and families to value the American Flag.

10/04/2026

West Jefferson American Legion Post 201 is honored to hoist the Flag at West Jefferson home games. We appreciate the West Jefferson Local School District for allowing us to provide the example of honoring our Flag. In the pledge of the American Legion is the call to support Americanism in honor of all who purchased our freedom. When we fail to remember, we teach our children and our children's children that freedom should be taken for granted.

09/17/2026

Do you believe that every deceased veteran deserves full military honors? Honor Guards are disbanding all across the nation due to a shortage of members. Let's not let that happen in West Jefferson. Join the American Legion Post 201.

I need younger veterans to hear this.
This Saturday, a Navy pilot named Wiley Greer is supposed to be laid to rest near Bel Air, Maryland. He served our country in the 1950s. His daughter contacted me because the family needed help finding a volunteer r***e team to give him the military funeral honors he earned.
I thought I would be able to find one.
I contacted nearly every honor guard I could locate around Bel Air. The search has been far more difficult than I ever imagined. I could not find a volunteer honor guard in Maryland with a steady statewide presence that was available to help. Delaware appears to have only one such team, and there are very few remaining in Pennsylvania.
One Pennsylvania team told me it has only nine members left—and two of them can no longer walk well enough to participate.
Think about that.
Veterans in their 70s and 80s are still putting on their uniforms, carrying r***es, traveling to cemeteries and standing in the heat, cold and rain so another veteran’s family can hear the final r***e volley and know their loved one’s service mattered.
But these volunteers are getting older (average age is 77). Their numbers are dwindling. If younger veterans do not step forward now, there will be more families like Wiley Greer’s—searching desperately for people to provide the final honors their veteran EARNED.
To my fellow younger veterans: your service does not have to end when you take off the uniform.
Your local American Legion or VFW honor guard needs you. You already understand duty, discipline, teamwork and what it means to stand beside another veteran. You can help preserve a tradition that means more to grieving families than words can explain.
Please visit www.operationhonorguard.us Our website includes an infographic explaining how to find and contact local honor guard commanders.
Join a team. Carry the tradition forward. Make sure the veterans who came before us are never laid to rest without the honors they earned.
Wiley Greer served his country.
Now his family needs someone to stand for him.

Brandon Merano- Executive Director/USAF Combat Veteran
🇺🇸 Operation Honor Guard

09/07/2026

American Legion Post 201, VFW Post 7005 and Honor Flight Columbus were the veterans groups represented in the Ox Roast Parade. Due to the breakdown of our Boxcar, with few minutes to spare we improvised and jumped into our vehicles, two vans and a music car. Rather than promoting our groups, our goal is to honor all those who have given their last full measure of devotion or have served in other ways and to remind parade-goers to honor our wonderful nation.