Legion Post 63 produced lots of good memories

To the editor:

I just read about American Legion Post 63's desire to relocate from above the old Broadway Theater in order to better accommodate older members who can't navigate the steep stairs.

If that old building could only talk. Having grown up in Cape and visited the Legion Hall with my mother and father many times during the 1940s and 1950s, I definitely have many fond memories of the old hall: dances during World War II for the aviation cadets learning to fly at Harris Field, watching the World War I veterans jitterbugging with my sister, the Golden Knights Drum and Bugle Corps it sponsored during and after World War II, Poppy Day, the midget auto races at the park, American Legion baseball, Missouri Boys and Girls State and, most of all, the great Fourth of July picnics it held during and after the war. Those were great times for Cape and Southeast Missouri and for those of us who still remember.

Cape and Southeast Missouri owe a lot to the veterans who served during those hard times and the many youngsters who serve today to protect our freedoms. Isn't it about time that something be done to pay back the many sacrifices the veterans made on our behalf? Let's get behind the post and give it a boost in getting the new building moving toward reality. I'm sure the many deceased members would look down and smile at the thought of the post's new building. I rest my case..

LARRY D. SWANN

Kimberling City, Mo.