36 U.S.C. § 22502

to keep alive and develop the spirit that promoted world service;

to maintain the ties of fellowship born of that service and to assist and further any patriotic work;

to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, State, and Nation;

to work for the welfare of the Army and Navy;

to assist, in any way in their power, men and women who served and were wounded or incapacitated in World War I; and

to foster and promote friendship and understanding between America and the Allies in World War I.