36 U.S.C. § 154302 — Purposes

submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-225 to r/title-36-PATRIOTIC-AND-NATIONAL-OBSERVANCES-CEREMONIES-AND-ORGANIZATIONS · 162 words · no verdicts yet

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The corporation promotes comradeship among Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard veterans and honors those who have died. It also promotes public interest in these services and supports American democracy.

The corporation's purposes are: (1) To encourage, promote, and maintain comradeship among people who are, or have been, in the active service of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, or the United States Coast Guard. (2) To revere, honor, and perpetuate the memory of those same people after they have died. (3) To promote and encourage public interest in the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard, and in the history of those organizations. (4) To uphold the spirit and ideals of the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard. (5) To promote the ideals of American freedom and democracy, to prepare members for the duties of citizenship, and to encourage them to serve as ably as citizens as they served the Nation under arms. (6) To maintain true allegiance to American institutions.

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The purposes of the corporation are—

(1)

to encourage, promote, and maintain comradeship among individuals who are or have been in the active service of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, or the United States Coast Guard;

(2)

to revere, honor, and perpetuate the memory of individuals described in paragraph (1) of this section who have departed this life;

(3)

to promote and encourage further public interest in the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard, and the history of those organizations;

(4)

to uphold the spirit and ideals of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard;

(5)

to promote the ideals of American freedom and democracy and to fit its members for the duties of citizenship and to encourage them to serve as ably as citizens as they have served the Nation under arms; and

(6)

to maintain true allegiance to American institutions.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1434.)

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1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1434

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