Return to HomePage	Ft. Dearborn - Chicago Chapter   WHO WE ARE We are the FT. DEARBORN - CHICAGO CHAPTER OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Our purposes are historical, patriotic, and educational, to carry out the injunctions of Washington in his Farewell Address, and several other charges that are listed below. As important as these stated objectives are, since they define the parameters of our existence, they are, unfortunately, vague and amorphous enough to make even the most intelligent prospect for membership ask: "Yes, but who are you? What do you do? Why should I want to join you?" Chartered by Congress our purposes are patriotic, historical, and educational, and shall include those intended or designed to perpetuate the memory of the men who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people; to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants; to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound reverence for the principles of the Government founded by our forefathers; to encourage historical reseaarch in relation to the American Revolution; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics and landmarks; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate memorials; to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war and of the Revolutionary period; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to carry out the purposes expressed in the preamble to the Constitution of our country and the injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to the American people. We attempt to carry out the important goals Congress has charged us to be responsible for with a sense of fellowship, pride and a certainty that we are promoting the principals established by our ancestors and held by all citizens, new and old alike. We also do many other things in pursuit of what might be thought of as a Fellowship of American Ideals.
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