American Legion - Post 1 - Tulsa, OK


The Closing of the Era of the Great War
This is a celebration no one takes any pleasure in planning. The event will pay tribute to the 4 million American men and women who answered the call to fight in the First World War. It will honor the families who sent young soldiers off to battle long before telephones or e-mail allowed them routine updates on their safety.
And it will salute a generation that led the nation through a Great War, a Great Depression, and a great renewal.

But none of it will transpire until one man -- a father, a grandfather, a living piece of history -- dies. Two weeks ago, the second-to-last American veteran of World War I, Harry Landis, of Sun City Center, Fla., died at the age of 108. Landis' passing leaves one man, 107-year-old Frank Buckles, the sole surviving U.S. doughboy.

Buckles, of Charles Town, W.Va., remains in remarkably good health, still living at home and doing media interviews, still mentally sharp and physically mobile, still exercising every day. Yet when he goes, so, too, will a generation. So plans are being made at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City to commemorate the end of an Era.

"When the announcement is made that Mr. Buckles is gone and, with him, the entire generation that fought in the Great War, I hope it will be a time for the country to really pause and think about this generation that sacrificed so much for our country,"

2011-2012 Officers

 Rick Alfaro
Commander

Jim Baker
1st Vice Commander

Randy Fletcher
2nd Vice Commander

Steve Coon
3rd Vice Commander

John Ward
Adjutant

Laurie Nidiffer
Finance Officer

Bill Leach
Sergeant-at-Arms

Bill Story
Chaplain

Executive Board
John Irby
Bill Alex
Keith Welch
Worley Holmes
Gordon Folsom
Lisa A. Milner
Jim Erb


Jerry Lakey
Jr. Past Commander

Service Officers
Frank Martinez
Lisa Milner
John Cloud


Joe Reynolds
Janitor

Linda K. Deutser
Administrative Assistant

Kirk Benson
Clubroom Staff

Lisa Barton
Clubroom Staff

Tina L. Campbell
Clubroom Staff