# Public Law 116–35 116th Congress 

To amend title 36, United States Code, to authorize The American Legion to determine the requirements for membership in The American Legion, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

## SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Let Everyone Get Involved in Opportunities for National Service Act’’ or the ‘‘LEGION Act’’. 

## SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 

(1) Since the end of World War II, the Federal Government has designated specific periods of war, the dates of which are important for qualification for certain benefits or member- ship in veterans organizations established by Congress. 

(2) In between those recognized periods of war, during so-called peacetime eras, the United States military has been involved in not fewer than 12 known eras, which are unrecog- nized by the United States Government as periods of war, resulting in numerous United States personnel combat casual- ties. 

(3) Those 12 unrecognized war eras occurred at the direc- tion of the then President of the United States, with full knowl- edge and consent of the then Congress. 

(4) The first of those 12 unrecognized war eras involving active United States military personnel was the Greek Civil War, fought in Greece from 1946 to 1949 between the army of the Government of Greece, supported by active military personal of the United States and the United Kingdom, and the Democratic Army of Greece, the military branch of the Communist Party of Greece. 

(5) During the Greek Civil War, one member of the Armed Forces of the United States sacrificed his life in service to the United States, and five others suffered non-combat deaths. 

(6) The second of those unrecognized war eras involving active United States military personnel was the Chinese Civil War, which occurred during the aftermath of World War II. 

(7) During the Chinese Civil War, the United States mili- tary equipped, trained, transported, and supplied the Kuo- mintang-led Government of the Republic of China with approxi- mately $4,430,000,000 in its resistance to the Communist Party of China. 

# An Act 

July 30, 2019 

[S. 504] 

Let Everyone Get Involved in Opportunities for National Service Act. 36 USC 101 note. 

36 USC 21703 note. 

