The veterans' posts: a pointer

The posts stand whole in the Wars section

The pointer: Two veterans' clubhouses stand in Mishawaka — the American Legion's Post 161 at 133 East Mishawaka Avenue, the post that rededicated itself in 2007 as the Ryan A. Balmer Post, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Post 360 at 1307 East Jefferson Boulevard — and both stand active in their orders' directory records. Their courses whole — charters, the Balmer rededication, the posts' place in the city's wars record — belong to the Wars section and are told there; this section takes only the club-map fact, and one builder's fact that belongs to the club record as much as to any: in 1946 the two posts, with United Rubber Workers Local 65, together formed Mishawaka Vets' Homes, Inc., the corporation that built Normain Heights — a veterans' housing development raised by the town's membership bodies acting together, whose whole course is in the Neighborhoods section. The Grand Army's Houghton Post No. 128, meeting in the Odd Fellows Temple in 1921, stands in Howard's roster and the halls entry above; the veterans' line runs unbroken from it to the two posts of the present record.

Sources:

1. The Wars section of this build — Post 161 and the Balmer rededication of 2007; the American Legion and VFW post directory records — Post 161, 133 E. Mishawaka Ave.; Post 360, 1307 E. Jefferson Blvd., each active.
2. The Normain Heights record in the Neighborhoods section — Mishawaka Vets' Homes, Inc., formed by Post 161, Post 360 and United Rubber Workers Local 65, 1946.