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Candidates Needed for
Department of Colorado Leadership
If all goes as we hope it will, The American Legion meeting in Ft Collins on January 23-25 will see some real positive steps being taken to restore The American Legion in Colorado to Department status. If this were a horse race, right now we would be rounding the far turn headed for home.
Of course, the first big step in Ft Collins will be consideration and hopefully approval of a Constitution and Bylaws to govern the Department. But there is a second step that is maybe more important, selection of the officers that will help guide the Department back into being. We think of the founding officers that guided our organization into being in 1919 and 1920. This set of officers will play just as important a role.
Before we can have those officers, we need candidates, Legionnaires that want to step forward and help bring The Colorado American Legion back into being. Will it be easy? Most likely not, but most good things aren’t easy. Most good things require hard work from dedicated people to make it happen. This is one of those things.
Will you be a candidate? I hope so. Consider it. We need candidates for Commander, Vice Commanders and National Executive Committee and Alternate. We know those will be elected. Others may be appointed, Chaplain, Historian, Sergeant-at-Arms. Regardless of how they are chosen that dedication and willingness to work will be required.
How do we know who these candidates may be? Only if they step forward and tell us their name, that they are interested and who they are, not just who they are as a Legionnaire but who they are as a person. How can they do that, be gaining an endorsement from their post. That endorsement would tell us about their Legion career but also tell us the things they have done in their personal lives that will make them a good officer as Colorado comes back.
Are you one of those people. First, we need dedication and willingness to work. Second, we need the ability to make good decisions and lead. If you want to be one of those people talk to your post about that endorsement. Contact some of Colorado’s past leaders. They can help you put an endorsement together. Your post needs to approve your endorsement for it to become official. Make sure that approval is in the minutes of a post meeting.
Send your endorsement and a copy of the meeting minutes to Administrator Havlick at Department HQ. Please send these document in PDF format. Those endorsements will be posted on the Colorado website at Endorsements Dept. Officers. We originally intended to publish both post and district endorsements. At this date, though, it may not be possible for a candidate to obtain a district endorsement. If that is you, don’t let that stop you. Send us your post endorsement and we will publish it.
Colorado needs its good Legionnaires to step forward. Are you one of those? Then take that step. Do you know someone that is one of those good Legionnaires? Then encourage them to step forward and get that endorsement. Colorado needs good Legionnaires who can lead.
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