Held every 2nd Saturday of February (same weekend as the Super Bowl), this popular publicly-focused event is a mid-winter opportunity to enjoy the warmth of mingling, friendship, socializing, conviviality, and Funnery over live music, drinks, and dinner!  Don’t let winter’s bluster keep you indoors!  Join us to reconnect with your friends and neighbors as the brisk winds blow! 

Tables of 8 or 10 can be reserved by ticket purchases.  Community groups are given the opportunity to highlight their mission and show their activities.  Ticket prices cover the cost of dinner, drinks, and music only so Post 192 makes no profit from ticket sales.  Proceeds from raffles, 50/50, and donations are our only fundraising for this event.  More details and tickets are available on this website.

Held every year on a mid-December Saturday on a date set by the US Congress, Wenonah's Wreaths Across America is part of a national program to celebrate the mission to Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve and their families, and Teach the next generation the value of freedom.  Each year across the country at more than 4,000 participating locations like Wenonah Cemetery, millions of Americans gather safely as one nation to Remember, Honor and Teach because of the freedoms ensured by our nation's military and by the individuals who have served and are serving in our armed forces.  The freedoms we enjoy today have not come without a price. 

Donate wreaths and/or help us place wreaths on graves of veterans.  Remember.  Honor.  Teach

Memorial Day weekend in Wenonah is marked by the deployment of American flags along both sides of Mantua Avenue in Wenonah from Woodbury-Glassboro Road to the Wenonah Cemetery where the Memorial Day Cemetery Service takes place.  Lining Mantua Ave with American Flags is one way we remind ourselves and residents of the real meaning of Memorial Day.  Look for the Crew of Post 192 in reflective vests on Friday afternoon before Memorial Day as they deploy those flags -- honk horn to show your support! 

For families who lost loved ones serving in our nation’s military, every day is Memorial Day.  And yet, for this unofficial start of summer, too many Americans give little regard to the real meaning of this federal holiday.  No one should feel guilty as they plan Memorial Day weekend activities such as cookouts, trips to the shore, and outings at Wenonah Lake and swimming pools with families and friends.  But all of us should take a moment to reflect on our freedoms and those who served and lost their lives in our nation’s military to ensure those freedoms – the real meaning of Memorial Day.  If you can, please join us on Memorial Day, which is always the last Monday in May, beginning at 8:45 am as we walk from the corner of Marion & Mantua Avenues in Wenonah to the Wenonah Cemetery, where we conduct a short ceremony service.  The service includes memorial tributes, a grade-school reading about Memorial Day, placement of flowers on graves of veterans by Scouts, playing of taps, and a 3-volley rifle salute to the fallen.  If you can’t join us for Memorial Day, take a moment wherever you are to pause with your family and friends to recognize the real meaning of Memorial Day. 

Post 192’s Honor Guard and Rifle Squad participates in events such as Memorial Day Parade & Cemetery Service, July 4th Parade & military tribute, 9/11 Memorial, Wenonah's Wreaths Across America, Veterans Suicide Prevention & Awareness, funeral services for veterans, and other military and veteran events and ceremonies.  We post and honor the Colors, play taps, and fire our rifles in tribute to those being honored. 

The Rifle Squad uses .30 caliber M-1 Garand Rifles on loan by the US Army in accordance with Title 10 USC §7683 as implemented by Army Regulation 700-131.  These rifles were the service rifle of the US military during World War II and the Korean War.  The Post 192 Rifle Squad treats these rifles with the utmost respect commensurate with their significant role in US history and their ownership by the US Army. 

Observed annually on November 11, Veterans Day is a federal holiday that honors military veterans of the United States Armed Forces.  Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans—living or dead—but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime. 

Less than 7.5% of the American population has ever served in our nation's armed forces, a remarkably small percentage given the strength and respect of the US military.  Post 192 encourages all local veterans to be acknowledged for their service, which is why we provide yard signs free of charge to all veterans, whether Post 192 members or not, so they can be recognized on and around Veterans Day.  Know a veteran who would like one of our yard signs?  Email us to let us know!

What is “R2V2”?  R2V2 is short for Rapid Response Volunteer Veterans!  R2V2 is a rapid-response service provided by members of Post 192 augmented by supporting volunteers and is one example of how we support our community.  The R2V2 provides free short-term assistance to the elderly, veterans, single parents of young children, disabled, active military and their families, and all others who are unable to undertake the work or pay for the work themselves. 

Our short-term services have included raking leaves, shoveling snow, cleaning gutters, cutting trees, clearing debris, repairing and maintaining trails, taking residents to medical appointments, and moving heavy furniture.  Know someone in need of R2V2 services?  Call 856-464-0428,

To fund our scholarships and other veteran and community support activities, we rely on the generosity of those who recognize the important work we do.  Each year, on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, and then again on the Saturday nearest Veterans Day on November 11th, we don our reflective vests and set up at the 4-way stop intersection at Wenonah Lake to create opportunities for the public to help us with our mission to support veterans, active-duty military, their families, and our communities. 

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Please swing by to help us with our mission.  Some motorists find displeasure in our presence on the road and don't appreciate that we would prefer to spend our Saturday doing something more fun than being in the middle of the road begging for money. Thankfully, the majority greet us with smiles and happily donate.  Thank you for the generosity you have already shown to our cause.

This all-expenses paid, week-long, in-residence experience for high school Juniors heading into their Senior year provides students with an opportunity to form mock governmental structures with students from across NJ to enhance their awareness of local and state government operations and administration. Selected students represent Wenonah Post 192 of The American Legion.

This all-expenses paid, week-long, in-residence experience for high school Juniors heading into their Senior year provides students with an opportunity to form mock governmental structures with students from across NJ to enhance their awareness of local and state government operations and administration. Selected students represent Wenonah Post 192 of The American Legion.

Wenonah’s Post 192 of the American Legion offers scholarships to graduating Wenonah seniors who will be attending a post-secondary institution and who is EITHER related to a family member serving or has served on active duty in the US Armed Forces OR who has volunteered in some capacity to support activities of the American Legion’s Post 192 such as serving as a Delegate in Boys State or Girls State.  The family member who is serving or has served in the military may be a brother, sister, father, mother, grandfather, or grandmother (but not aunts, uncles, or in laws).  Those who served as delegates to NJ Boys State or NJ Girls State sponsored by Post 192 are considered to have volunteered their time to Post 192 activities.  If you are interested in being considered for a Post 192 scholarship, please contact your high school Guidance Counselor or contact us directly for an application.

Each year, Post 192 recognizes 6th graders graduating from Wenonah Elementary School with certificates and monetary awards for citizenship and patriotism.  These awardees are selected by the faculty.  In addition, Post 192 selects one essay about the meaning of Memorial Day from those submitted by the 6th graders.  The author of the selected essay is provided a monetary award and given the opportunity to read their essay during the Cemetery Service on Memorial Day.

Veterans Corner was created to serve as a tribute to those from Wenonah who served in the US military, and as a special tribute to those who died while serving.  Post 192 takes great care to enhance and maintain this corner, which includes monuments for World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.  As part of our Centennial Celebration in 2020,  Post 192 installed two additional monuments: one that pays tribute to those from Wenonah who served during the Gulf War and Global War on Terrorism and the other is a granite reflecting bench that pays tribute to all who served in our nation’s military.  The corner is also filled with personalized engraved paver bricks, which our supporters purchased to fund the new monuments.  Please stop to view the monuments and the personal messages on the engraved pavers.

Members of Post 192 assist homeless veterans by participating in the annual Stand Down of South Jersey. This program provides services and products to homeless veterans along with shelter, meals, clothing, and dental, vision, and medical attention.

Post 192 engages with the community often and the Boroughwide Yard Sale each April is just such an opportunity.  As you swing by the Community Center to grab a free yard sale map, stop by for free coffee, pastries, and lively chitter chat!  And as you visit all the yard sales and make your awesome finds, celebrate by stopping by again for more!

When someone joins the military and takes the oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, their family feels they also are serving our Country.  Just ask the families who have loved ones serving in the military.  It is with that recognition that we pay tribute to local residents who are serving on active duty during the July 4th Patriotic Ceremony in Wenonah Park.  Know a local resident on active military duty?  Please let us know and we’ll include them in our tribute!

Post 192 runs the fundraising Concession Stand in Wenonah Park in concert with the Wenonah Volunteer Fire Company as part of the July 4th Beer Garden!   Come out to join us immediately after the Patriotic Ceremonies on July 4th to support the fire company and Post 192 by enjoying beer, the commemorative mugs, hot dogs, Tacos-in-a-bag, and other concessions in the Beer Garden! 

Members of Post 192 engage the community in many other ways, including giving presentations on historical aspects of the military and display and care of the American Flag, including flag etiquette.  Please let us know if you would like us to participate in your event!