U.S. service members raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, on Feb. 23, 1945. The Marine Corps is investigating whether some of the men in the photo have been misidentified.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Patriarchal Degree - Aims to teach the lessons of transparent honesty, domestic purity, genuine hospitality and unfeigned righteousness.

Golden Rule Degree - Aims to teach good will, tolerance, and true brotherhood. It also teaches that members should unite with the virtuous and good irrespective of country, religion, or politics in the discharge of duties which all agree are paramount to universal peace and cooperation.

Royal Purple Degree – Aims to teach alertness and determination as basis for a possible success in the journey called life.
The Encampment is subordinate to the Odd Fellow Lodges. It is an entity that has three degrees one must have before obtaining the highest degree of an Odd Fellow which is the Patriarch Militant Degree. Our goals are to help improve and elevate the character of man and base our motto of Faith, Hope and Charity.  We encourage our Odd Fellow members who have recieved the 3rd Degree in the Odd Fellow Lodge to petition the local Encampment for membership.
Mission
Elected Officers of the Grand Encampment
Grand Scribe
MISSOURI GRAND LODGE
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
FRIENDSHIP  LOVE AND TRUTH
Grand Encampment of Missouri
Grand Patriarch