The Marine Corps
League is the organization for
all Marines. It takes great pride in crediting its founding
in 1923 to World War I hero, then Major General Commandant John A.
Lejeune. It takes equal pride in its Federal Charter,
approved by An Act of the Seventy-Fifth Congress of the United
States of America and signed and approved by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt on August 4, 1937. Since its earliest days, the
Marine Corps League has enjoyed the support and encouragement of
the active duty and reserve establishments of the U.S. Marine
Corps.
Purposes. The
purposes of the Marine Corps League as prescribed in its Federal
Charter are:
...to preserve the traditions and to promote the interest
of the United States Marine Corps;
...to band those who are now serving in the United States
Marine Corps and those who have been honorably discharged from
that service together in fellowship that they may effectively
promote the ideals of the American freedom and democracy;
...to fit its members for the duties of citizenship and to
encourage them to serve as ably as citizens as they have served
the Nation under arms;
...to hold sacred the history and memory of the men and
women who have given their lives to the Nations;
...to foster love for the principles which they have
supported by blood and valor since the founding of the Republic;
...to maintain true allegiance to American institutions;
...to create a bond of comradeship between those in the
service and those who have returned to civil life;
...to aid voluntarily and to render assistance to all
Marines and former Marines as well as to their widows and orphans;
...to perpetuate the history of the United States Marine
Corps and by fitting acts to observe the anniversaries of
historical occasions of peculiar interest to Marines.
THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE.... THE
ORGANIZATION FOR ALL MARINES
active duty... reserve... former... retired... officer... enlisted
We few, we precious
few.
We who have shed our blood
together, shall forever be...
...A BAND OF BROTHERS
...Wm Shakespeare
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