§130102 — Title 36 Patriotic and National Observances | U.S. Code

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The corporation must honor and keep alive the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and the men who saved the Union from 1861 to 1865. It preserves and shares GAR records for research, honors all who served the country, teaches patriotism, good citizenship, true history, and respect for the flag, opposes efforts to weaken or destroy the constitutional Union, and supports representative government, equal rights, and impartial justice for all.

Title 36, §130102

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The purposes of the corporation are—

(1)to perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865;

(2)to assist in every practicable way in preserving, and making available for research, documents and records pertaining to the Grand Army of the Republic and its members;

(3)to cooperate in doing honor to all those who have served our country patriotically in any way;

(4)to teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country, and the love and honor of our flag;

(5)to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, destroy, or impair our constitutional Union; and

(6)to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative government, equal rights, and impartial justice for all.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 13010236:78b.June 17, 1959, Pub. L. 86–47, § 3, 73 Stat. 77. In clause (5), the words “destroy, or impair” are substituted for “make for the destruction or impairment of” to eliminate unnecessary words.

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