Welcome to the Kensington Memorial AMVETS Post 146, club located in the small pocket of Flatiron in east Philadelphia that has existed for 80 years and where club members helped win World War II then watched America grow into the greatest nation on the planet from their barstools. Feel the heartbreak of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who like the AMVETS men, stood as an Irish-American Democrat and World War II veteran who visited the neighborhood a month before his election victory.Meet The Dollies, a 50-member group of feisty women who make up the club auxiliary and challenge the male dominated norms as women across the nation were doing. And sit in the bunker with a Vietnam veteran who survives a hand grenade explosion thanks to a picture of a saint that caught the shrapnel that would've killed him."Meet Me at the AMVETS" became embedded in the lexicon of a neighborhood that once stood as America's mightiest yet responded to the exodus of its factories and jobs with the kindness, generosity, determination and faithfulness that have kept the club doors open for close to a century.
Welcome to the Kensington Memorial AMVETS Post 146, club located in the small pocket of Flatiron in east Philadelphia that has existed for 80 years and where club members helped win World War II then watched America grow into the greatest nation on the planet from their barstools. Feel the heartbreak of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who like the AMVETS men, stood as an Irish-American Democrat and World War II veteran who visited the neighborhood a month before his election victory.Meet The Dollies, a 50-member group of feisty women who make up the club auxiliary and challenge the male dominated norms as women across the nation were doing. And sit in the bunker with a Vietnam veteran who survives a hand grenade explosion thanks to a picture of a saint that caught the shrapnel that would've killed him."Meet Me at the AMVETS" became embedded in the lexicon of a neighborhood that once stood as America's mightiest yet responded to the exodus of its factories and jobs with the kindness, generosity, determination and faithfulness that have kept the club doors open for close to a century.
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