“It’s important…to have a home,” said Marty Everett who is a longtime member of Post 2 and served in the US Air Force for 24 years. Three other members of his family are also members of Post 2 and the generations of service in his family are symbolic of the membership in the Knoxville post.

In 1925, Union and Confederate Civil War veterans marched on Gay Street followed by veterans of the Spanish-American War and "the world war."

Gettysburg American Legion Post 202’s annual Veterans Day program, presented by the Allied Veterans Council of Adams County, honored those in the community who have served their country.