The purpose of this corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship amoung its members; to assist worthy comrads, to perpetrate 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, whomsoever.  ~VFW  Charter