Question: The American Legion of Honor was a type of society that provides what? 
Context: American Legion Soldier is a public artwork by German-born American artist Adolph Wolter, located at the American Legion building on K Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C., United States.  "American Legion Soldier" was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture!  program in 1993. The Cushing American Legion Building is an American Legion hall located at 212 S. Noble in Cushing, Oklahoma.  The building was built in 1924 to serve as a meeting place for American Legion Post 108, which was organized by World War I veterans.  The Mission Revival building features a raised parapet and a colonnade of square columns in front of the entrance.  The American Legion Post hosted social events for veterans and sponsored observances on Armistice Day and Memorial Day.  The post expanded to include World War II veterans in the 1940s and hosted meetings of other local groups throughout the 1940s and 1950s; the American Legion has continued to meet at the post into the 21st century. The American Legion of Honor was a fraternal benefit order that was active in the late 19th century and early 20th century.  In its heyday, it was one of the best known benefit societies. American Legion Peak (13211 ft ) is located in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming.  Situated 1 mi east of Bow Mountain and a couple miles west of Mount Helen, American Legion Peak is the 17th tallest peak in Wyoming.  The small American Legion Glacier descends from the east slopes of the mountain and Henderson Peak lies to the south. Lindborg-Cregg Field is a stadium in Missoula, Montana.  It is primarily used for baseball and was home to the Missoula Osprey prior to Ogren Park at Allegiance Field's opening for the 2004 season.  It holds 2,200 people.  It is currently the home of the Missoula Mavericks American Legion baseball teams.  It is named for Russell W. Lindborg and William 'Bill' Cregg, two Missoula men who were active in promoting Missoula American Legion Baseball in the years following World War II.  Russell Lindborg also served as Commander of the Missoula American Legion Post and as president of the Missoula Chamber of Commerce.  He owned the Lindborg Tire Company. The Austin City Hall, at 90 South St. in Austin, Nevada, was built in 1866, when Austin was prosperous as a new silvermining city, and served as a city hall and jail.  It has also been known as Austin Station House, as Austin American Legion Hall, and as Austin VFW Hall.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.  It was deemed significant for serving Austin during most of the 1864-1881 period during which Austin was legally a city.  The building was transferred to the local Knights of Pythias chapter and extended in c.1904; it was bought by the local American Legion chapter in 1947, and, as of 2003, continued to serve as a location for American Legion and for VFW meetings. The Indiana World War Memorial Plaza is an urban feature located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, originally built to honor the veterans of World War I.  The five-city-block plaza was conceived in 1919 as a location for the national headquarters of the American Legion and a memorial to the state's and nation's veterans.  At the north end of the plaza is the American Legion Mall, which is the site of the administration buildings of the Legion, as well as a memorial cenotaph.  South of that is the Veterans Memorial Plaza with its obelisk. The Sink-Crumb Post No. 72 American Legion Hut is a historic American Legion hall at Second and Cherry Streets in Knobel, Arkansas.  It is a single-story cypress log structure, with a corrugated tin roof, a Rustic form that was typical of Legion halls of the 1930s.  The hall was built in 1933-34 with funding from the Federal Civil Works Administration for the local American Legion chapter, which had been founded in 1931, and has served as a center for its activities since then. The Sons of the American Legion is a patriotic service organization formed on September 12–15, 1932.  The S.A.L. is made up of male descendants of people who served in the United States Armed Forces during times specified by the American Legion.  The Sons of the American Legion's mission to serve veterans, the military and their families is carried out through its hundreds of outreach programs delivered by its members, volunteers and national headquarters.  The Sons of the American Legion's national headquarters is located in Indianapolis. A benefit society, fraternal benefit society or fraternal benefit order is a society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.  Such organizations may be formally organized with charters and established customs, or may arise "ad hoc" to meet unique needs of a particular time and place.  Many major financial institutions existing today, particularly some insurance companies, mutual savings banks, and credit unions, trace their origins back to benefit societies, as can many modern fraternal organizations and fraternal orders which are now viewed as being primarily social; the modern legal system essentially requires all such organizations of appreciable size to incorporate as one of these forms or another to continue to exist on an ongoing basis.
Answer: mutual aid