

Since the pandemic, the Legion membership has decreased. I oversee everything…get our budget reports done, and make sure that everyone from our finance officer and executive board to the full membership gets taken care of,” Anderson stated. Marshall Anderson is the Commander at the Legion and a Navy veteran who served for seven years. Membership is open to all military veterans and family members and the general public is invited to certain activities.

The Arroyo Grande American Legion Post 136 is making a difference through community projects, events, and services. It may be a prequel, but it packs a beautiful punch as a postscript.Outside of the American Legion building (Photographer: Marissa Sabo) Read it after you have read Sovereign and The Offering. In Transgression we get to see it all come tumbling down, shuddering in horror and from the terrible, tangible, humanity that started it all. There will never be anything as complicated as family. There is nothing as brutal, as dangerous, as the desire to be loved. I cannot say I decided to like anyone I had already developed a dislike for- but I can definitely say I understand. Reluctant sympathy and compassion were pulled from me through the sheer skillfulness of how the history of the series was explained, described. It takes a talented writer to turn a point of view so perfectly on its head while keeping so true to the story and the characterizations that were established, that the reader expects. So I sat down, excited to get more background on the world, ready to cheer for familiar names, even as I prepared to boo and stomp for the usual suspects.

Last month I was lucky enough to get to read Transgression, the prequel that promised to tell me just how everything happened. Earlier this year I had the privilege of reading Sovereign and The Offering, the two books that make up the Sovereign Series proper.
