Ketoctin Chapter

National Society

Daughters of the American Revolution

                Bluemont         

Loudoun County, Virginia

Organized April 4, 1950

Ketoctin Chapter meetings are held the first Tuesday

of each month from September through June.

For information regarding membership or on Ketoctin Chapter please contact:

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

     Merry Ann Thompson Wright

President  General

Preserve the Past, Enhance the Present and Invest in the Future

MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY FOR NSDAR

Any woman is eligible for membership who is no less than eighteen years of age and can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence. She must provide documentation for each statement of birth, marriage, and death. Admission to membership in the NSDAR is either by invitation through a chapter or as a Member-At-Large. No chapter may discriminate against an applicant on the basis of race or creed. For more information click on NSDAR or for Virginia DAR go to VADAR.

Ketoctin Chapter, NSDAR

Teresa McCarthy, Regent

 Welcome to Ketoctin Chapter,

         We are located in Loudoun County, Virginia with over 100 members ranging from age 18 to 90+. We have proudly served the Loudoun County Community for over fifty years. Ketoctin Chapter presents a monetary DAR Good Citizen Award to each of the County High Schools. We also personally present each elementary schools fifth grade winner with the Good Citizenship Award. We have fundraisers throughout the year to support the local womens shelter. We also send supplies and clothing annually to the Veterans Home in Martinsburg, WV.

         Our meetings are interesting and informative as well as being fun! Chapter meetings are held in libraries and homes and twice per year we have restaurant luncheons, as well as a family picnic in June.

          Please come for a visit. We welcome anyone who meets the qualifications as outlined by NSDAR to join our chapter.

Teresa McCarthy, Regent

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CHAPTER HISTORY

CHAPTER OFFICERS

OUR PATRIOT ANCESTORS

KETOCTIN PHOTO ALBUM

THE AMERICAN FLAG

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CHAPTER HISTORY

Ketoctin Chapter was organized on April 4, 1950
at "Whitehall," the home of Mrs. Frank W. McComb

KETOCTIN ORGANIZING * & CHARTER MEMBERS

The Loudoun County Seal is a genuine coat-of-arms devised in 1968 by the House of Heralds in London.
Based on the coat-of-arms of the Earl of Loudoun, for whom the county was named, it was the first official
seal accorded to an American county. The Countess of Loudoun and the Queens representative, the Rouge Dragon, in a ceremony never before held in the United States, presented the coat-of-arms, attendant flag, and a 300-poundstone from Loudoun Castle in Scotland to the County. In heraldic language the arms are "Gyronny ermine and gules with fordure embattled vert gutly argent."

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OUR PATRIOT ANCESTORS

While most of the Revolutionary War battles in Virginia remained east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it can be said that there was no lack of patriotism in the outspoken citizens of Loudoun County. So active were they in the cause of American freedom, that they gained the proud distinction of furnishing the largest number of soldiers to Washington's Continental Army of any county in Virginia. We are justifiably proud of the sacrifices our patriotic ancestors gave to ensure American Independence, and honor their names in this listing.

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Members and Guests at Christmas Meeting Annual Auction for Scholarship Fund

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THE AMERICAN FLAG

Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
By Francis Bellamy

The Star-Spangled Banner
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming;
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

         How Does One Properly Fly the Flag?

 1. The flag is always hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
 2. The flag is never allowed to touch the ground or the floor.
 3. When hung over a sidewalk on a rope extending from a building to a pole, the union stars are always away from the building.

 4. When vertically hung over the center of the street, the flag always has the union stars to the north in an east/west street, and to

the east in a north/south street.

 5. The flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of

States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
 6. The flag should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds but always allowed to fall free.
 7. The flag should be displayed at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day then raised to the top of the staff.
 8. Never fly the flag upside down except as a signal of distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
 9. The flag is never flown in inclement weather except when using an all-weather flag.

10.The flag can be flown every day from sunrise to sunset and at night if illuminated properly.

This information conforms to the current Federal flag code.

           The Flag should be displayed every day, and especially on these dates:

New Year's Day, January 1st
Inauguration Day, January 20th
Lincoln's Birthday, February 12th
Washington's Birthday, 3rd Monday in February
Easter Sunday, variable
Mother's Day, 2nd Sunday in May
Armed Forces Day, 3rd Saturday in May
Peace Officers Memorial Day at half-staff, May 15th unless it conflicts with Armed Forces Day,

then May 16th Memorial Day at half-staff until Noon - last Monday in May
Flag Day, June 14th
Independence Day, July 4th
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day at half-staff, July 27th
Labor Day, 1st Monday in September
Citizenship Day, September 17th
Columbus Day, 2nd Monday in October
Veterans Day, November 11th
Thanksgiving Day, 4th Thursday in November
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day at half-staff, December 7th
Christmas Day, December 25^th

And such other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States; and on the date

of admission of States to the Union; and on State holidays.

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Updated July 18, 2010

2009 Ketoctin Chapter-NSDAR

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