NPC -- 100th Anniversary of the American Legion Post 20:
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Description of Pictures: 100th Anniversary of the American Legion Post 20
National Press Club members, especially veterans, and spouses/guests are invited to a reception on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of American Legion Post 20. The post has been affiliated with the Club since its inception.
Post 20 has an illustrious pedigree. It was started at the suggestion of famed World War I General John “Black Jack” Pershing, who commanded the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Serving in Washington after the war, Pershing was an associate member of the Club. Post 20 received its initial American Legion charter on Nov. 19, 1919. It originally had nicknames like “the Pershing Post” and the “Black Jack Post” in honor of Pershing.
During WW II Post 20 hosted Saturday canteens at the Club for service members in DC. It was at one of these in February 1945 that then-Vice President Harry Truman stopped by and played a few tunes on the piano. Also on hand that day was young actress Lauren Bacall, whose press agent suggested she hop up on the piano for a photo. The photo was a huge hit nationwide; the piano still stands in the Truman Lounge.
The post’s past commanders include longtime Washington reporter and McClendon News Service founder Sarah McClendon, who served in the Army during World War II, and former NPC president John Cosgrove, a WW II Navy veteran. Both have NPC rooms named after them; Post 20 meets regularly in the McClendon Room.
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Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
three trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
That's it so far!
Partially Reviewed: Rough draft. I've gone through these pictures once, removing the worst ones, some duplication, etc. I usually take sequences of 4 or 5 pictures at a time and there are lots of near duplicates. I'll be doing a final review later which will cull the pictures down some. To be honest though, I'm way behind on doing final reviews.