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The budget fiscal/financial year begins on June 1, 2024, and ends on May 31, 2025 -- this is considered Fiscal Year 2025. The budget is prepared by the Budget Committee, which is chaired by the Finance Officer. March/April: Budget Committee presents budget to Executive Committee. April 9: Budget submitted to general membership for review, comment, […]

https://www.legion.org/honor/261015/selfless-service-four-chaplains https://www.va.gov/columbia-missouri-health-care/stories/four-chaplains-day/#:~:text=Today%2C%20Feb.,for%20their%20devotion%20and%20sacrifice. Always the first Sunday in February. Four World War II chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, in what has been referred to as the second-worst sea disaster of World War II.)

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/february-12/#:~:text=to%20this%20page-,Lincoln's%20Birthday,Kentucky%20on%20February%2012%2C%201809. Born February 12, 1809. Died April 15, 1865.

Although the holiday is most often called “Presidents’ Day,” the observed federal holiday is officially called “Washington’s Birthday.” Neither Congress nor the President has ever stipulated that the name of the holiday observed as Washington’s Birthday be changed to Presidents’ Day. Additionally, Congress has never declared a national holiday binding in all states; each state has […]

February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799 https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/facts/the-truth-about-presidents-day/

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