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[CITE: 36USC22502]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                    CHAPTER 225--AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS
 
Sec. 22502. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to keep alive and develop the spirit that promoted world 
    service;
        (2) to maintain the ties of fellowship born of that service and 
    to assist and further any patriotic work;
        (3) to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the 
    community, State, and Nation;
        (4) to work for the welfare of the Army and Navy;
        (5) to assist, in any way in their power, men and women who 
    served and were wounded or incapacitated in World War I; and
        (6) to foster and promote friendship and understanding between 
    America and the Allies in World War I.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1304.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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22502.................................  36:93.                           Feb. 2
4, 1925, ch. 303, Sec.  3, 43
                                                                          Stat.
 967.
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    In clauses (5) and (6), the words ``World War I'' are substituted 
for ``the World War'' for clarity.
