• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      Why would membership in one preclude membership in the other? It’s an earnest question, I don’t know anything about either organization, but didn’t find anything relevant in their Wikipedia pages

      • sartalon@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        I responded to Profthadbach

        Essentially there is no real reason you can’t, it’s just kind of redundant.

        I wasn’t trying to be a jerk either, just not sure why.

        Both require dues and both provide the same services.

        (One is for service members who fought in a foreign war, the other is for service members who didn’t fight in foreign wars.

      • sartalon@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 days ago

        Typically VFW is for veterans who fought and American Legion is for service members who didn’t fight.

        I guess there is no real reason why you can’t join both, but it’s like joining two car wash clubs.