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About SAR
We are the FORT 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 research 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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