That the purposes of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic,
historical, charitable, and educational, and are:
- to preserve and strengthen
comradeship among its members;
- to assist worthy comrades;
- to perpetuate
the memory and history of our dead; and to assist their surviving spouses and
orphans;
- to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United
States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws;
- to foster
true patriotism;
- to maintain and extend the institutions of American
freedom,and
- to preserve and defend the United States from all enemies.