A national association of veterans serving as soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen who served this nation in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign soil or in hostile waters, is a federally chartered corporation.

The objectives of the Veterans of Foreign Wars are: fraternal, patriotic, historical and educational, 1. to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members. 2. to assist worthy comrades. 3. to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead and to assist their widows and orphans. 4. to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America and fidelity to its Constitution and laws. 5. to foster true patriotism 6. to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom 7. to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies.