36 U.S.C. § 230302 — Purposes

submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-225 to r/title-36-PATRIOTIC-AND-NATIONAL-OBSERVANCES-CEREMONIES-AND-ORGANIZATIONS · 291 words · no verdicts yet

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The corporation's purposes are patriotic, fraternal, historical, and educational, for the benefit of World War I veterans: giving them a way to stay in touch and remember the war and their fallen comrades; cooperating with other veterans' groups; encouraging communities to support WWI veterans and their widows and orphans; preserving WWI history; upholding the Constitution and true Americanism; protecting national security from threats inside and outside the country; opposing forces like communism that threaten American freedom; and doing anything else needed to carry out these purposes.

This section lists eight purposes, described as patriotic, fraternal, historical, and educational, all serving veterans of World War I: (1) giving World War I veterans an organization for mutual benefit, pleasure, and companionship, so they can stay in contact, keep alive their memories and friendships from the war, and honor their dead; (2) cooperating fully and harmoniously with all other veterans' organizations, to best serve the interests of veterans of every war the U.S. fought and their widows and orphans; (3) encouraging communities and local governments to take more interest in World War I veterans, their widows and orphans, and the problems they face; (4) collecting, preserving, and studying historical events, records, and mementos of World War I; (5) vigorously upholding the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States and the individual states, and fostering true Americanism; (6) working continuously for national security to protect Americans from threats both inside and outside the country, to preserve the American way of life; (7) opposing, to the fullest extent, forces such as communism that aim to deny Americans' freedom and very existence as a free people; and (8) doing any other lawful act reasonably needed to carry out the corporation's purposes.

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The purposes of the corporation are patriotic, fraternal, historical, and educational, in the service and for the benefit of veterans of World War I, and are—

(1)

to provide for the veterans of World War I an organization for their mutual benefit, pleasure, and amusement which will afford them opportunities and means for personal contact with each other to keep alive friendships and memories of World War I and to venerate the memory of their honored dead;

(2)

to cooperate to the fullest extent and in a harmonious manner with all veterans’ organizations so that the best interests of all veterans of all wars in which the United States has participated, and the widows and orphans of deceased veterans of those wars, may best be served;

(3)

to stimulate communities and political subdivisions into taking more interest in veterans of World War I, the widows and orphans of those deceased veterans, and the problems of those veterans and their widows and orphans;

(4)

to collate, preserve, and encourage the study of historical episodes, chronicles, mementos, and events pertaining to World War I;

(5)

to fight vigorously to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States as well as the individual States of the Union and to foster the spirit and practice of true Americanism;

(6)

to fight unceasingly for our national security to protect Americans from enemies within our borders, as well as those from without, so that our American way of life is preserved;

(7)

to fight to the utmost all those alien forces, particularly forces such as communism, whose objectives are to deny our very existence as a free people; and

(8)

to do any other act necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of the corporation.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1482.)

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1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1482

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