Hello Legionnaires and others,
We are American Legion Police Post 415. Our Post was chartered in 1939 and is unique in at least one way. The unique aspect of our charter is that we are made up of either currently employed or retired city of Milwaukee police officers. No, we do not have the membership numbers that other Posts may have but, we are unique in our membership.
We are some of the few who served this great nation and then came home to serve again. Our service now is to protect you from internal enemies rather than a foreign combatants.
We are proud to say that we are here to Protect and Serve.
What we do.
This information is being presented per the request of your American Legion members. They are Veterans still serving America but not in military roles. We are serving in non-military roles in accordance with our motto FOR GOD AND COUNTRY.
Yes, we do have members of our Post serving on active duty to combat the terrorist situations that we face today but we do serve in other ways. The activities we participate in are to promote peace and good will, maintain law and order and to promote Americanism. Some of these issues will be shown in the following examples.
Your Police Post 415 has participated in several diferent activities. They have sponsored or have been represented by:
- sponsoring high school student participation in oratorical
competitions to promote Americanism,
- participated in the St. Patrick's Day Parade,
- participated in Annual L. E. Memorial Ceremony,
- attended funerals for Legionnaires and others,
- attended the Gen. william "Billy" Mitchell Memorial,
- attended the Union Veterans of the Civil Was Memorial,
- attended the V.A.'s "Reclaiming our Heritage,
and . . . as of this date,
- sponsoring and attending a Wilson Park Little League team.
As was stated earlier "We are Veterans still serving America." The Legion makes every effort to promote justice, freedom and democracy but we can't do it alone. We request your support in helping us provide helpfulness to our community, state and nation.
Your support does not always mean financial support though that does help in immense ways. The Legion does appreciated your donations but, we're also thankful for your various ways of backing the Veteran. A wave, a thank you or a smile does wonders in showing that you are appreciative of Veterans.
Respectfully and with comradeship to all we say THANK YOU !
Attempts will be made to up date this site monthly. Due to circumstances that are at times beyond our control the up dating may not occur as often as we'd like. But, please visit our site again if interested in the Posts activities.
A Unique View on Who We Are
When God made Peace Officers...
When the Lord was creating peace officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."
And the Lord said, "Have you read the spec on this order?"
A peace officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn't touch, and not wrinkle his uniform.
"He has to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.
He has to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half-eaten meals.
And he has to have six pairs of hands."
The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands...no way."
It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord, it's the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have."
"That's on the standard model?" asked the angel.
The Lord nodded.
"One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, "May I see what's in there, sir?" (When he already knows and wishes he'd taken that accounting job.)
"Another pair here in the side of his head for his partners safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, "You'll be all right am'am, when he knows it isn't so."
"Lord, "said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow."
"I can't, "said the Lord, "I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on a civil service paycheck."
The angel circled the model of the peace officer very slowly,
"Can it think?" she asked.
"You bet, " said the Lord. "It can tell you the elements of a hundred crimes; recite Miranda warnings in its sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five learned judges to debate the legality of the stop... and still keeps its sense of humor.
This officer also has phenomenal personal control. He can deal with crime scenes painted in hell, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim's family, and then read the daily paper how law enforcement isn't sensitive to the rights of crimainal suspects."
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the peace officer. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model."
"That's not a leak," said the Lord, "it's a tear."
"What's the tear for?" asked the angel.
It's for the bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, for justice."
"You're a genius," said the angel.
The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," he said.
