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[CITE: 36USC230302]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
 CHAPTER 2303--VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
                              INCORPORATED
 
Sec. 230302. Purposes

    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.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1482.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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230302................................  36:763.                          July 1
8, 1958, Pub. L. 85-530, Sec.  3,
                                                                          72 St
at. 371.
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