About Us
Welcome to YOUR American Legion Post 21
American Legion Post 21
Tifton, GA.
Who We Are
The American Legion was chartered by Congress after a meeting in St Louis, MO. on May 8, 9, & 10, 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veteran’s organization. It is a community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized into 55 Departments -- one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines. Each Department is then divided into Districts and each District is subsequently divided into a number of Posts.
National
The American Legion's national headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of volunteers serving in leadership and program implementation capacities in local communities to the Legion's standing national commissions and committees, the national organization has a regular full-time staff of about 300 employees. To visit their website click on the link below:
Department of Georgia
The Department of Georgia Headquarters
3035 Mt. Zion Road
Stockbridge, Georgia 30281
Phone (678) 289-8883
The Department of Georgia’s headquarters is located in Stockbridge, Georgia. It is staffed by several full time employees and many volunteers overseeing committees here in our State.
http: //www.georgialegion.org
The 12th District of Georgia
The 12th District of Georgia is located in the southwest part of the state. It currently consists of the 16 Post which are displayed below with their meeting night and time:
Valdosta Post 13, Valdosta, Ga. 2nd Tuesday. @ 7 PM
Douglas Post 18, Douglas, Ga. 4th Thursday @ 7 PM
Tifton Post 21, Tifton, Ga. 2nd Monday @ 6:30 PM
Adel Post 91, Adel, Ga. 2nd Thursday @ 7 PM
Hulsey Sumner Post 98, Ashburn, Ga. 2nd Tuesday @ 7 PM
Mars – McDonald Post 99, Fitzgerald, Ga. 1st Thursday @ 7:30 PM
Jeff Davis Post 100, Ocilla, Ga. 4th Monday @ 7 PM
Otranto Post 115, Nashville, Ga. 3rd Monday @ 7 PM
Ashley D. Morris Post 173, Pearson, Ga. 4th Tuesday @ 6 PM
Hahira Post 218, Hahira, Ga. Last Tuesday @ 7 PM
Moultrie Post 324, Moultrie, Ga. 3rd Tuesday 7 PM
Sylvester Post 335, Sylvester, Ga. 1st Thursday @ 6:30 PM
Milltown Post 336, Lakeland, Ga. 4th Thursday @ 7:00 PM
Howard Forrest Post 503, Valdosta, Ga. 3rd Saturday @ 2 PM
Lester Smith Post 515, Douglas, Ga. 3rd Wednesday @ 6 PM
Smith and Shivers Post 536, Fitzgerald, Ga. 1st Sunday @ 6 PM
Post # 21
The Post 21 home, has been at 1224 Moore Hwy. since 1937 in Tifton, Georgia. Our meeting time is 6:30 PM on the second Monday of each month with a social gathering running from 6 to 6:30. Our Post was chartered on the 15th day of September 1919. Since the inception of our Charter we have become an active part of our Community! Some of our community activities include:
We put American Flags on the graves of all Veterans we can identify
in all cemeteries in Tift County on Memorial Day.
We also plan the Memorial Day Program in Tifton
held at Veterans Memorial Park..
We sponsor the Tift County Agricultural Fair each Fall in Nov.
We sponsor contestants in the Legion Oratorical Contest.
We sponsor deserving young men to the Boy’s State program.
We recognize local Police and Fire Fighters in our community quarterly.
Our Ladies Auxiliary sponsor deserving young woman to the Girl’s State program.
We support our local AFJROTC at Tift County High School and provide achievement awards at the end of the school year.
We also provide Honors Medals for our two local High Schools, Tift Area Academy and Tift County High.
We also support and sponsor youth sports through the Tift County Recreation Dept.
We provide a Bible to a family member of a fallen veteran.
We sponsor a Girls Scout troop, and send cookies to deployed troops overseas.
We provide a collection and distribution point for Toys for Tots
Stay active and help us grow and add more community activities to support our veterans and community.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
May 14th 1 pm
District Conference to be held
in Tifton, GA, Post 21.
1224 Moore Hwy, Tifto
Doors open at 1 pm
Refreshments will be served
Election of District Officers
for 2022-2023
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The Sons of the American Legion
We meet in conjunction with
the 2th District Conference as above
Ellection of District SAL Officers
for 2022-2023
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July 1st, 2022
The City of Tifton honors
Medal of Honor recipient
Col. Col Ralph Puckett
with a ceremony
at the Veterans Memorial Park
time to be announced.
Make plans to honor Tifton's own Hero!
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Please visit the
Tifton Verterans Museum
Usually opened on Weekends
Call (229) 382-5767 for info.
Info for Veterans
Use your local VA Clinic for service-related problems or, for any medical issue if you are 100% disabled thru the VA.
DEPARTMENT CONVENTION - DULUTH,
JUNE 23-26, 2022
HOTEL RESERVATION
Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta
1775 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth, GA 30096
770-923-1775
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Veteran Health Card
The Health card can be applied for over the phone:
877-222-8387
When calling the number, select option one [1] In the event of loss or stolen VA Health Card, this number will serve that purpose. However if the card loss/stolen is over three years old getting a duplicate may not be possible since the
records are not kept on file that long. Work with the person on the phone, they are most co-operative and helpful.
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Legion, SAL, and Auxiliary members are eligible to receive up to $5000 in Accidental Death Insurance
You must register to receive benefit!
Visit https://www.thelit.com/no-cost-legioncare to confirm
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