We, the mothers, wives, widows, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, and granddaughters of AMVETS and female veterans, fully realizing our responsibilities to the community, State and nation, associate ourselves for the following purposes: to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States of America; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and justice for all, to promote the cause of perpetual peace and goodwill among nations; to maintain inviolate the freedom of our country; to preserve the fundamentals of democracy and Americanism; to perpetuate the friendships and associations of the great war of liberation; and to dedicate ourselves to the cause of mutual assistance...this of the grace of God.