{"id":104318,"date":"2019-07-26T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104318"},"modified":"2019-08-15T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:00:53","slug":"american-legion-of-new-york-elects-new-commander-and-officers-sets-mission-for-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104318","title":{"rendered":"American Legion of New York elects new commander and officers, sets mission for year ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Newly Elected Department Commander, Michael McDermott, addresses members of the American Legion gathered at the 101st<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Convention in Buffalo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Annual convention draws hundreds to Buffalo, membership\nelects Cortland County veteran to lead organization<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of veterans gathered at the annual American Legion\nDepartment of New York convention to elect U.S. Navy Veteran Michael McDermott,\nof Cortland County, as their 2019-2020 Commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 101st<\/sup> American Legion Convention\nwelcomed hundreds of veterans from across New York State. The members gathered\nto provide reports on their programs, such as American Legion Boys State, the\nOratorical contest, American Legion Baseball, as well as support programs and\nmember events and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Legion is made up of war time veterans from\nevery branch of the military. Commander McDermott hopes to bring in more Iraq\nand Afghanistan veterans into the organization and encourages younger veterans\nto get involved as a way to make a difference in their community and connect\nwith other veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m honored to serve as Commander of the American Legion\nand look forward to connecting with veterans and supporters around the state,\u201d\nsaid McDermott. \u201cWe will continue to make the American Legion a place for all\nwar time veterans and advocate for the benefits we\u2019ve earned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommander McDermott has extensive experience in leading\nmembers of the American Legion at a local and regional level,\u201d said Department Adjutant\nJames Casey. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome him as our Commander and supporting his\nwork this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annual convention draws hundreds to Buffalo, membership elects Cortland County veteran to lead organization Hundreds of veterans gathered at the annual American Legion Department of New York convention to elect U.S. Navy Veteran Michael McDermott, of Cortland County, as their 2019-2020 Commander. The 101st American Legion Convention welcomed hundreds of veterans from across New York State. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story","category-veterans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-r8y","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NYAL-McDermott-Address.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}