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title: "36 U.S.C. § 22502"
description: "Purposes"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "225"
chapter_name: "AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS"
section: "22502"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 22502"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 22502 - Purposes

## Text

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.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2250236:93.Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 303, § 3, 43 Stat. 967. In clauses (5) and (6), the words “World War I” are substituted for “the World War” for clarity.