On Thursday, Nov. 7, the Rochelle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented a flag that has been flown over Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. to the Flagg Township Museum in Rochelle.
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ROCHELLE — On Thursday, Nov. 7, the Rochelle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented a flag that has been flown over Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. to the Flagg Township Museum in Rochelle.
The museum’s previous flag was in need of replacement and was taken down Nov. 7 and will be retired. The Rochelle DAR received the new flag via a grant program through the national DAR organization’s flag committee, Rochelle Chapter Regent Debby Katzman said. Constitution Hall is the DAR’s national headquarters.
“We could apply for a grant for a local public place that had a flag in need of replacement and retirement,” Katzman said. “Bea Chaplin, our flag chair, noticed the flag here was a little tattered and we nominated the Flagg Township Museum when we wrote for the grant, and we received it.”
The flag was raised and flown over Constitution Hall for a day in honor of the Flagg Township Museum before it was taken down and sent to the Rochelle DAR.
“The museum now has a flag that flew over Washington D.C.,” Katzman said. “That's pretty cool. It's national recognition. We’ve been recognized nationally in the past. And it's just the right thing to do. When a flag is in disrepair, we want to replace it and have that pride in the United States.”
The honor the Rochelle DAR and Flagg Township Museum received will be on the national DAR site for Flags of the United States to inspire others to do it in their own communities. A DAR chapter can only receive a flag once.
The DAR and the Flagg Township Museum have aligning principles. The DAR’s principles are historical preservation, education and patriotism. Katzman said the Nov. 7 event checked all of those boxes. Museum Director Jan Devore agreed.
“It's very timely to raise this flag before Veterans Day,” Devore said. “It's national recognition. I think the strength of the local DAR chapter made a difference in being able to get this. I'm a member. The chapter taking the initiative is what made it happen. We're very fortunate they thought of the museum. It's a natural partnership between the museum and the DAR. I think there's a commonality.”
