Welcome to the Morvay-Miley-Cruice Post 524 Website

Thanks for stopping! You are invited to look around our site and learn more about our Post family and the American Legion. As a local Post in the foremost Veterans organization in the world, we are firmly committed to our mission of serving the Veteran community and their families. One very important way we strive to accomplish this is through our ever-growing membership, who volunteer their time generously on the many projects and activities that make us the robust Post we are.

We hope that our many Post family members will find the time to visit. To our fellow Veterans and active-duty service men and women who may be in the area, please stop by. Please have your VSO membership card or military ID with you.

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 524 Encourages Everyone To Honor Fallen Warriors

Join us on Saturdays and Sundays in May from Noon to 4:00 pm on the boardwalk in front of the Music Pier, where members of American Legion Post Family 524 distribute red poppies in exchange for a donation.

The poppy fields in Belgium, particularly in the Flanders region (Westhoek), are legendary for blooming on former World War I battlefields, notably around Ypres, Diksmuide, and Polygon Wood, typically during late spring to early summer. The poppies (Papaver rhoeas) began growing after the soil was disturbed, which occurred due to “massive trench warfare and shelling”, breaking the seeds' dormancy. The Flanders Field poppy has become an internationally recognized symbol of the lives sacrificed in war and the hope that none died in vain.

The Flanders Hotel in Ocean City was named in memory of the fallen Allied troops of World War I’s dreadful “Battle of Flanders”, fought in Belgium in 1914.