Show AMERICAN LEGION NOW HAS THE department OF PANAMA 0 4 04 ZA seem so on the island of if tobago taboga where I 1 the it D department awad of panama hold held lk itt R recent clent CI convention loom sixteen at years re mn ago who when president wd 1 ell called e a on the men of amer lea ia to in the great adventure of cutting t a waterway from ocean to are ocean in through gh I 1 the NO isthmus of P panama in that but the strength ot of tre its american fleet first reign might t not he be dl divided filed by a odaie oya e of weeks from the east to the west wast coast there were neve thousands of volunteers tee who answered his call to pan own limn they went and built the jia ji A anal fighting all I the ile time e i against perpetual 1 heat bear t almost 0 o perpetual r potosi rain pats lepers and ad all the pests e of 1 ili the tropics tropic many of them claim ga gave a up the struggle and n d returned home but others staged ed until fit the great dream came true an ana it they ch as ere are there yet 1 in bip filamor far flung e outpost of america by the luck locks that are re lapped by the waters ot of two oceans again in april 1917 mine came a call to duty my a gammons I 1 to winand win war and that call at was not at unheard at the canal one by one men and woman dropped out let of t the ile shops shape and ad offices ceiC and it nned the army khait and the navy nary blue or the modest cap and cape pc of the army arav nurse corps until on hodem no ber 11 ms iri the it day of 1 the sur armistice altire there sicre approximately carol canal sma dwse men and w women a men in uniform they saw service 1 in all branches of american america or arms ina they were on land and ad sea me 1 in the air and under the w water they were a ler ersa atlle till people a 1 they wore fighters as their building ot f the can canal at I 1 had proved they came bit back ck etith it b almost sit every medal do and ad dera decora tion ot of the war at including chath from tile french and it the other allies in Sop september of last vear rest several ot of these them met to form a post of at the american legion one had bad recently been be an 1 aviator I to in 1 france rr r another a as a lieutenant of engineers had done things in no inns alin lord land that high I 1 I 1 care uld aid were ere im fm brith possible pable p able A led after months montha of inteer ambulance e driving before america entered the war had enlist ed it 1 in tile the french artil artillery lerv and had ended ad ed as a lieutenant this first post ins s followed by a second ad and ad the treat creation of the depart me ment at of panama of the american america legion with headquarters at cristobal th the first convention of the depart went was wag held recen recently on an the uland island of taboga 12 nilles miles from the mat main land of at the isthmus of 0 panama and in chafe sight right of the spot where in 1513 vasco A cunez its de balboa discovered the ile pat pa cefic ocean at this ibis convention elbert S llala aid waa wa elected department depart eat com mander and edward J dilla depart went ment for the mining coming year these them offices previously tied bad been held by patterson Pat terion and herbert pearson po ethely ely arrange creole were ere also made ad to 11 love have the pon panama represented P cited at the cleveland convention |