Daughters of the American Revolution

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And my great Aunt Bernice was just adamant about us girls being in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Let's go.

And of course, none of us would.

the, um,

DAR, Daughters of American Revolution and the chapter that they disbanded over there, um, views of having transgenders in the organization and then that kind of led me into the Boy Scouts allowing girls in and we just kind of went from there so Harrison thought it would be a great idea for us to come on and talk about it so here we are and most of y'all won't see because you're just listening but I am supporting sporting my Beauvoir sweatshirt tonight got my fall muster you can't see the back but sporting that and also i want to promote something tonight but it does come with a warning so my first time to try these but y'all these little debbie cherry cakes are the bomb but i'm warning you my waistline hasn't fared so well so the box was just sitting here and i'm staring and who knows that i might break out with one later so i just thought i'd share that

Here I am in a week where I'm testing my own mortality as a man entering his early 30s.

Not going to get into it, but I might have been a bit stupid.

Well, the daughters have their organization.

The veterans are asking the sons to start their own organization.

So there was two organizations, but the DAR has an interesting history.

Uh, Representative Wilkes, do you know exactly one of the main reasons the DAR was started?

And I think hearkening back to when a lot of the public art we see was built, a lot of it was sponsored by funds raised by the public.

And if you're talking about the older statues, of course, through the Daughters of the American Revolution, things like that, or through a civic organization or something like that.

So certainly if some of those things maybe have atrophied because your community hasn't relied on them and everybody's expecting your your local government to do it all uh but at the same time they're not wanting them to spend money on these kind of things maybe reach back out to your local rotary or civitan or or your local churches and try to see if you can call us around a vision of something that The community can agree on whether that's the betterment of a park with a new mural or the betterment of an empty space to green it up.

These are all things where the local government can be the catalyst to help bring the people together to do those kind of things.