American Legion at the convention and later became known as Legionnaires' disease ("Legionellosis"). The bacterium that causes the illness was later named "Legionella". In 1988, after over 44 years of opposing U.S. Merchant seamen from receiving benefits under the G.I. Bill, they allowed Merchant seamen to join The American Legion. This followed Merchant seamen being granted limited veterans status by the United States Secretary of the Air Force on January 19, 1988. After a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision ("Texas v. Johnson"), The American Legion launched and funded an unsuccessful campaign to win a constitutional amendment against harming the flag of the
Garibaldi Legion (French Foreign Legion) the 1930s and is remembered in France as le dernier Poilu, the last of the veterans. Today the Legion in Italy is an association of veterans and people who share the ideals of the Republic Garibaldi. Garibaldi Legion (French Foreign Legion) The Garibaldi Legion (official name 4 régiment de marche du 1 étranger) was a unit of the French Foreign Legion which formed the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion composed entirely all of Italian citizens, who fought in France in World War I against the Germans. With the outbreak of World War I in the fall of 1914, Giuseppe