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Celebrating 100 Years of Service and Lithuanian Heritage

The Vytautas Aid Society was established in 1910. Its building sports a Lithuanian flag and symbols. Inside it has a bar and a Heritage room. Among the Lithuanian memorabilia there one can find a society uniform: at its beginning and long after that, Vytautas Aid Society was a paramilitary organization and its members used to march the American streets in these Lithuanian uniforms. Eventually, the Society changed. Until the 1980s, there was a requirement that a person who joins must be a Lithuanian through a paternal line (i.e. have a Lithuanian surname) but now a maternal line is also acceptable and women are allowed to join. Non-Lithuanians may join as associate members and since 2000s non-Catholics are allowed to join as well. Only Lithuanians can be full members, however.

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