Personal Narrative: Joining The Local American Legion

My wife and I recently moved from Colorado to Tennessee. We moved because of family, so we could be closer to help out. It was a big decision for us. I grew up in Tennessee but haven’t lived here for almost 25 years. She made her visit to Tennessee in July of this year to look for a house. We were looking for something to get involved in so we decided to join the local American Legion since we are both retired military.
We joined in November and saw that they were doing some things for local veterans and homeless around the holidays so we signed up to assist. Since I am currently not working and only going to school full time I was able to help out the legion a lot this last month.
The project they had set up was to gather household items, donations from others or acquire specific items that people had requested in need. As we gathered the different supplies we sorted them out and make boxes for people throughout the community. The Legion had addresses of some of local veterans and they also advertised for people to their information to the Legion if they were in need of supplies.
Last week we delivered over 120 boxes of food and supplies to local families throughout our community. It was great seeing how happy the people were to see that others cared for their wellbeing and took the time out of their
I do thing like this because, it is the right thing to do. I give a lot of credit to the military for stressing community service. I of course chose the American Legion to help out because they support veterans which is very important to me but they also help others. This is a vital thing especially at this time of year when there are so many that need help. No matter which way you look at Christmas, form the religious aspect or more of secular, it is still about helping each other. Jesus was definitely a helper of poor and needy and Santa Claus represents that of