At the present time the Legion might be compared to a two-headed American eagle--one looking towards France and the A.E.F., and the other homewards to the service men here. The two are a single body borne on the same wings and nourished of the same strength. They are the same in ideal and purpose but directed for the moment by two different committees working together. One committee is the result of the caucus at Paris in March, when the A.E.F. started the organization, while the other was born this month in St. Louis, Mo., for the men here. GEORGE S. WHEAT. NEW YORK May, 1919. CONTENTS I.--LATTER WAR DAYS IN FRANCE II.--THE PARIS CAUCUS, MARCH 15-17, 1919 III.--PRE-CAUCUS DAYS IN AMERICA IV.--THE ADVANCE COMMITTEE V.--THE ST. Louis CAUCUS, MAY 8, 9, and 10 VI.--THE LEGION AND THE BOLSHEVIKI VII.--THE LEGION WON'T MEET AT CHICAGO VIII.--THE SILVER LINING IX.--OBJECTORS--CONSCIENTIOUS AND OTHERWISE X.--THE REËMPLOYMENT PROBLEM XI.--THE DISREGARD OF SELF XII.--THE CLOSING HOURS XIII.--WHY THE AMERICAN LEGION? THE AMERICAN LEGION CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN LEGION RESOLUTIONS LEGION FACTS WHAT THE PUBLIC PRESS THINKS COMMITTEES ROSTER ILLUSTRATIONS THE ST. LOUIS CAUCUS HENRY D. LINDSLEY THE PARIS CAUCUS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. GROUP AT ST. LOUIS CAUCUS BENNETT C. CLARK ERIC FISHER WOOD CASPAR BACON STATE CHAIRMEN HERBERT, MATHEWSON, AND WICKERSHAM "JACK" SULLIVAN CHAPLAIN J.W. INZER FRED HUMPHREY P.C. CALHOUN THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN LEGION CHAPTER I LATTER WAR DAYS IN FRANCE I believe that the army of to-day, when it goes back to citizen thinking and citizen acting, will be capable of so contributing to the commonwealth of the United States as to change the character of the whole country and lift it up to a higher plane. BISHOP BRENT, _Senior Chaplain, A.E.F_. Paris, March, 1919. On a midsummer morning in 1918, ambulance after ambulance unloaded its cargo of wounded humanity at a base hospital in Paris. The wounded were being conveyed rapidly from the front and the entire hospital was astir with nurses, surgeons, and orderlies. A major, surgeon, almost staggered out of an operating room where he had been on duty for twenty-two hours and started for his quarters when a colonel arrived on an inspection trip. "Pretty busy," remarked the colonel as he acknowledged the major's salute. "Busy? Busy!" replied the major. "Good Lord, the only people about here that aren't busy are the dead ones. Even the wounded are busy planning to hobble around at conventions when the Big Show is over. Already they are talking about how they intend to take a hand in things after the war when they get home."