The purposes of the corporation 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.
(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1304.)