...which this corporation is organized shall be to inculcate the duties and obligations of citizenship, to preserve the history and incidents of our participation in the war, to cement the ties of comradeship formed in service, to protect, assist and promote the general welfare...

...Freedom and Democracy for which we have fought; to inculcate the duty and obligation of the citizens to the State; to preserve the history and incidents...association for the furtherance of the foregoing purposes." This declaration is the forerunner and the lineal antecedent of the preamble of the constitution of...

...Edward L. Logan, 26th Division; Lieut.-Col. Lemuel Bolles, 1st Army. • obligation of the citizens to the State; to preserve the history and incidents...association for the furtherance of the foregoing purposes." This declaration is the forerunner and the lineal antecedent of the preamble of the constitution of...

...proposed constitution stated their purpose: "We, the members of the Military and Naval Services of the United States of America in the Great War, desiring...an Association for the furtherance of the foregoing purposes."12 Alice Edgerton, writing in the Nation in October 1919, raised a troubling question about...

...democracy for which we have fought. 2. To inculcate the duty and obligation of the citizen to the state. 3. To preserve the history and incidents of our participation in the war. 4. To cement the ties of comradeship formed in the service. There would be no military rank in this...