A PATRIOTIC VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATION - - SERVING GREATER LOS ANGELES COUNTY
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PURPOSE, Mission, Vision, and Motto
MOWW Purpose: "To serve our nation and community while honoring and supporting our fellow Veterans past and present "
MOWW Mission: “To unite in selfless service to our Youth, our Community, and the United States of America”
MOWW Vision: “To continue as a preeminent United States Veteran Service Organization (VSO) with robust community outreach programs that fulfill vital community niches, to foster a modernized national publicity and marketing strategy that embraces social media and technology, and to continue establishing partnerships with outside organizations that share MOWW's core values.”
MOWW Tagline: "Serving Youth, Community and Nation Since 1919"
MOWW Motto: “It Is Nobler To Serve Than To Be Served”
PREMABLE TO THE MOWW CONSTITUTION
To cherish the memories and associations of the World Wars waged for humanity;
To inculcate and stimulate love of our country and flag;
To promote and further patriotic education in our nation;
Ever to maintain law and order, and to defend the honor, integrity, and supremacy of our national government and the Constitution of the United States;
To foster fraternal relations among all branches of the armed forces;
To promote the cultivation of military, naval, and air science and the adoption of a consistent and suitable policy of national security for the United States of America;
To acquire and preserve records of individual services;
To encourage and assist in the holding of commemorations and the establishment of memorials of the World Wars; and
To transmit all these ideals to posterity; under God and for our country, we unite to establish
… the Military Order of the World Wars.”
Origins Of The Order
MOWW is a patriotic Veterans Service Organization (VSO) founded in 1919 by officers who served under General of the Armies John J. “Blackjack” Pershing. The purpose of the Order is to promote patriotism,
civic responsibility, public service and leadership in the nation’s communities.
The Order’s name was originally named “American Officers of the Great War.” Its name was later changed to “The Military Order of the World War,” and still later changed to “The Military Order of the World Wars.” It was incorporated by an Act of Congress on 27 January 1919. The Order was intended to be the successor to the “Society of the Cincinnati” for General George Washington's officers of the Continental Army and “The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of Federal Officers” who served during the American Civil War.
The Order originated “Army Day.” Upon the re-designation of service days as Armed Forces Day, the Order was the first large patriotic organization to endorse that change. The Order was instrumental, through its Past Commander-in-Chief, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in reviving the long-dormant award of the Purple Heart Medal in 1932.