---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 22502"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "22502"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/22502"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 225 — American War Mothers"
---

# §22502. Purposes


The purposes of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1304.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 22502 | 36:93. | 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.