VFW was established to assist veterans.
Our mission is to foster camaraderie among United States veterans of overseas conflicts and to serve our veterans, the military, and our communities and advocate on behalf of all veterans.
The the purpose of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic,
historical, charitable, and educational:
to preserve and strengthen
comradeship among its members;
to assist worthy comrades;
to perpetuate
the memory and history of our dead;
and to assist their widows and
orphans;
to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United
States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws;
to foster
true patriotism;
to maintain and extend the institutions of American
freedom,
and to preserve and defend the United States from all her
enemies.