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Excerpt from The Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution The work of an organization like the Daughters of the American Revolution in a State like Iowa, remote not only from the seat of the Revolutionary War, but from all wars, must be vastly different from that in a section of country so full of places of historic interest that the need of such a working body is apparent to all. Living in a community where every family has traditions, where almost every person has some article treasured because of its age and associations, and where the historic spirit is a natural growth of many decades, one does not need to ask: Why such a society? There is, however, plenty to do in Iowa. First of all, in every community the love of country and the personal responsibility of every citizen to support the officers of our government in an honest and efficient administration must be impressed upon the people. While this is not the peculiar duty of our society, being the duty of every American, it is so natural a product of our line of study and work that almost every chapter reports efforts in this line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.