AMVETS Post 2298 Initiates Junior AMVETS Program – Encouraging Patriotism and Community Service for Children Ages 5-17

CALLAWAY, FL - AMVETS Post 2298, located at 5510 FL-22, Callaway, FL, has members interested in organizing a Junior Amvets Program at their Post. Children ages five (5) through seventeen (17) are eligible to join. Junior AMVETS are the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and grandchildren of: servicemen and servicewomen who died and who would have been eligible for AMVETS membership (eligibility at the end); members of AMVETS and deceased members of AMVETS; members of the Auxiliary; and Sons of AMVETS. Children for whom you are the legal guardian are included.

The motto of Junior AMVETS is, “We play together…. now let’s work together.”

Junior AMVETS assists AMVETS and AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary with selected projects as requested. Junior AMVETS selects and carries out their own projects as well. Listed below are some of the Junior AMVETS Programs.

Americanism: Doing service to promote patriotism

Hospital: Doing service for hospitals or hospitalized patients

Child Welfare: Doing service for children

Community Service: Doing service for families (adults and children together) and community organizations

S. O. S.: Doing service for those in the Military

If you have a child or grandchild that may be interested, please reach out to Jasmine Johnson at: Danjasminejohnson@hotmail.com .

From the website, below:

JUNIOR AMVETS OATH

I pledge myself to living up to the Junior AMVETS Oath by:

Doing my duty to God and Country

To be a good citizen

To be helpful at all times

To be clean of body and mind

To live up to the Junior AMVETS Laws Regulations

Check out the website for the Preamble.

These sound like wonderful things to teach!

http://www.amvetsauxfl.org/jr-amvets-.html

To be eligible for membership in AMVETS, you must have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, including the National Guard and Reserves, anytime after Sept. 15, 1940. Additionally, unless still serving, your discharge must have been under honorable conditions.