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Serving the Veterans of Collegedale and Ooltewah Tennessee
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DESMOND T. DOSS
Post 257
PO Box 257
Collegedale, TN 37315

 

*Meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month*
Collegedale City Hall - Fuller Community Room
4910 Swinyar Drive, Collegedale, TN
Dinner at 6 PM - Meeting at 7 PM

*** Veterans of the Collegedale and Ooltewah areas are invited to join us.***

Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion


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 maintain law and order;
to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism;
to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the Great Wars;
to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation;
to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses;
to make right the master of might;
to promote peace and goodwill on earth;
to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy;
to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.



Calendar Events:

Thursday May 17 - Regular Post 257 meeting at 6:00pm, Collegedale City Hall  / location changed to GardenPlaza for program honoring Blue Star Mothers 

Flea Market - Sunday May 20 - The Post will be participating in the VFW sponsored flea market on the campus of Southern Adventist University. Concessions and flea market items will be available at this fundraiser event. Come out and buy something! Or, if you have items to donate, give Post 257 Commander Twombly a call at 396 2485.

Thursday June 21- Regular Post 257 meeting at 6:00pm, Collegedale City Hall / catered dinner meal $8.00

 

Third District Commander Dennis Smith (L) with Collegedale Mayor John Turner (center) and Post 257 Commander Bill Twombly. Taken Dec. 3, 2011 at Collegedale Veterans Memorial Park

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Legionnaire Owen Cook reads part in unserviceable flag retirement ceremony Dec. 3, 2011.

 
 
May 17, 2012 - Blue Star Mothers night at Garden Plaza of Greenbrier. Honored mothers of local veterans on active duty are shown with left to right, Post 257 Commander Bill Twombly, TN Third District Commander Dennis Smith and Department Tennessee Commander David Alexander. Below are a few other photos from the event.
 
 
 
 

 

Recent projects of Post 257:

  • funding for flag maintenance in Veteran's Park
  • funding for repainting M-48 tank and helicopter in        Veteran's Memorial Park
  • construction of flat bed trailer for use in parades
  • placement of trail maps (mapstones) in Veteran's Park
  • aided local veteran in moving from foreclosed home
  • worked with veterans at local assisted living facility
  • Blue Star mothers honored with a special evening

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Veterans Park tank and helicopter gunship refurbrishing project underway in early November 2009. Tank shown after sandblasting and with primer coat. Below is the completed job. Post 257 thanks all who contributed toward this project.