William Brothers Dept. Commander 2025 - 2026

Commander William "Bill" Brothers August Bulletin Greetings Legionnaires, Another month has gone by, and we are in the Fair Season in Vermont, we have had our pop-up Legion Family tent set up at three events so far with our membership team. We attended Lamoille County Field Days, which I attended and had a great time, we obtained 11 memberships. We then were at Addison County Field Days and again it was successful this year with getting some 15 new members out of Addison, most were for SAL and auxiliary, but that’s fine, we are Legion family after all. We also were at the Rutland State Fair and had hopes of more membership, Rutland didn’t produce what we thought it could or would, but that’s ok, the team tried. I want to say thank you to Sr. Vice Commander Fred Wilson for all his hard work during these events and thank you to everyone that stepped up and volunteered to work them, it means a lot to me that you show your dedication to the American Legion mission. I was invited to our National Vice Commander – Chuck Robbin’s Northeast Homecoming celebration in Falls River, New Jersey. I did attend and it was quite an experience. I presented him with some special Vermont made products in which he was very pleased. Sr. Vice Commander - Fred Wilson and I attended the Membership Training in Indianapolis, and it was very informative. Mylegion.org will be releasing some new things in the coming months and they are trying to make it more user-friendly for everyone. Your quotas have been set and that info should be in the next membership report from HQ’s. We worked very hard setting them and trying to be fair to all the Posts. The Department delegates to National Convention are getting ready to go to Tampa, I believe we are all looking forward to this and enthusiastic about what we can bring back to share with you all. I do have the privilege of representing Vermont as an Assistant Sargent of Arms at the Convention. This should be interesting to say the least. I want to say thank you to you all for what you do for this great organization and our communities. Let's keep up the drive to get membership in and I know Fred’s team can beat our last year's goals! Let's not forget to do buddy checks on our fellow Veterans and to see how they are doing and to see if there is anything we can do to help them. The Fall Conference is coming right up, mark your calendars for that, October 25th Colchester 91 and Monday the 27th The Newly elected National Commander - Dan Wiley will visit Vermont! The banquet is set, and we are working on a schedule of visits for him. That information will be out soon. Remember if you have any events at your Posts coming up, get them to Melodie at HQ’s so we can put it on our Legion Facebook page. In closing I do want to thank our Executive Administrator Melodie for the great job she does for our Legion Family, she goes above and beyond for us, so thank you Mel for what you do. Also, Kudos to Corrinna Colson, Executive Secretary for Auxiliary Department for all she has done to encourage, promote and help Legion Family. For God and Country, William “Bill” Brothers Commander, Dept. of VT