36 U.S.C. § 153702: Purposes

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Creates a corporation to honor and remember the Grand Army of the Republic and the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865. It recognizes the National Woman’s Relief Corps as its auxiliary, organized in 1883, and must preserve GAR records for research, honor all who served in any war, teach patriotism and citizenship, oppose efforts that would weaken the Union, and support representative government, equal rights, and fair justice.

Title 36, §153702

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The purposes of the corporation are—

(1)to perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic, as the National Woman’s Relief Corps is its auxiliary and was organized at its request in 1883, 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 war;

(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) 15370236:1003.Sept. 7, 1962, Pub. L. 87–650, § 3, 76 Stat. 503. In clause (5), the words “destroy, or impair” are substituted for “make for the destruction or impairment of” to eliminate unnecessary words.

§153702 Purposes

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Title 36, §153702

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