That the purpose of this Corporation shall be:
fraternal, patriotic,
historical, charitable,
and educational:
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 widows 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 her enemies.
