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[CITE: 36USC22702]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
   CHAPTER 227--AMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II, KOREA, AND 
                                VIETNAM)
 
Sec. 22702. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to preserve for ourselves and our posterity the great and 
    basic truths and enduring principles upon which this Nation was 
    founded;
        (2) to maintain a continuing interest in the welfare and 
    rehabilitation of the disabled veterans of World War II, the Korean 
    conflict, and the Vietnam era and to establish facilities for the 
    assistance of all veterans and to represent them in their claims 
    before the Department of Veterans Affairs and other organizations 
    without charge;
        (3) to dedicate ourselves to the service and best interests of 
    the community, State, and Nation to the end that our country shall 
    be and remain forever a whole, strong, and free Nation;
        (4) to aid and encourage the abolition of prejudice, ignorance, 
    and disease;
        (5) to encourage universal exercise of the voting franchise to 
    the end that there shall be elected and maintained in public office 
    men and women who hold public office as a public trust administered 
    in the best interests of all the people;
        (6) to advocate the development and means by which all Americans 
    may become enlightened and informed citizens and thus participate 
    fully in the functions of our democracy;
        (7) to encourage and support an international organization of 
    all peace-loving nations to the end that not again shall any nation 
    be permitted to breach their national peace;
        (8) to continue to serve the best interests of our Nation in 
    peace as in war;
        (9) to develop to the utmost the human, mental, spiritual, and 
    economical resources of our Nation;
        (10) to perpetuate and preserve the friendships and comradeship 
    born on the battle front and nurtured in the common experience of 
    service to our Nation during time of war; and
        (11) to honor the memory of those men and women who gave their 
    lives that a free America and a free world might live by the 
    creation of living memorials in the form of additional educational, 
    cultural, and recreational facilities.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1306.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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22702.................................  36:67b(1), (3)-(10).             July 2
3, 1947, ch. 298, Sec.  3(1), (3)-
                                                                          (10),
 61 Stat. 405.
                                        36:67b(2).                       July 2
3, 1947, ch. 298, Sec.  3(2), 61
                                                                          Stat.
 405; Aug. 15, 1977, Pub. L. 95-
                                                                          98, S
ec.  1(b)(1), 91 Stat. 830; June
                                                                          13, 1
991, Pub. L. 102-54, Sec.
                                                                          13(n)
(1), 105 Stat. 278.
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