We at Post 9851 demonstrate the motto to "Honor the Dead by Helping the Living". The VFW has made it clear in their Charter to Congress...
That the purposes of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic,
historical, charitable, and educational, and are:
- 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 surviving spouses 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 enemies.
