The American Legion, founded at Paris, France in 1919, established a long and enviable record of service to the nation and to veterans of the nation's wars. Although records from its formative years of rapid growth are not always exact, Van Tassell, Wyoming was among the first four posts organized in the nation, with their charters all signed on the same day. Named for Ferdinand Branstetter, a resident of the Van Tassell community and among the first to cross broad seas and fall on the Field of Honor, Post No. 1 led the roll of chartered posts throughout the history of the Legion's Wyoming Department and did so honorably in service to community, state, and nation.