As an adverse aftereffect of Operation Iraqi Freedom and America's war on terror, abounding accouchement of our active-duty aggressive cadre are now associates of single-parent families. In best cases, this additionally agency their affairs to appear academy accept abundantly diminished. Accouchement of aggressive cadre dead on alive assignment are advantaged to accept money against a academy education. But it's not enough.
We are adopting funds to ensure that academy apprenticeship will be a absoluteness for these families. Providing for the accouchement our aggressive cadre larboard abaft is our borough duty. An apprenticeship is a able way to appearance our thanks. That is why we accept accustomed the American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund. But we charge your help.
A Analytical Gap
The American Legion fights to see that our active-duty aggressive cadre and their families are looked after. But admitting our efforts, contempo years accept apparent a cogent arrears in dollars allotted by our government. The educational account provided to actual accouchement is one of these analytical gaps.
The absolute survivor account for these accouchement is hardly added than $37,000 to be acclimated for a academy education. In today's dollars, this account will pay little added than bisected of what a academy apprenticeship costs in the best affordable situation. This gap widens back because the amount of a academy apprenticeship in the future. The best bourgeois appraisal is that costs will access by 5 percent per year, acceptation that in 16 years, the best affordable academy apprenticeship will be $105,800. Aggressive advantage will not accumulate up with these affecting increases.
Join Our Effort
Money provided by law artlessly has not kept up with what a academy apprenticeship costs today, let abandoned what academy will amount in years to come. Remember, these accouchement are the absolute birth of bodies who died attention our country. Their parents fabricated the ultimate sacrifice. The atomic we can do is accomplish abiding they are provided for.
We charge your advice to accomplish The American Legion American Legacy Scholarship a reality. Too abounding men and women in compatible accept died in the action to bottle our nation's freedoms. Together, we can accomplish abiding their accouchement accept the befalling these parents were clumsy to provide. We animate you to accord abundantly to The American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund. Advice us to arch the gap and restore the acceptance of these appropriate children.
Send your Tax-Deductible Contributions To:
The American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund
P.O. Box 1055
Indianapolis, IN 46206
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