Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution Receive Flags

Windsor, CT-- The Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution (CTDAR) and Christy Anderson Hendrie, State Regent, are thankful to the Connecticut Society of the Children of the American Revolution (C.S.C.A.R.) for the gift of two POW/MIA flags.

These flags were gifted at the CTDAR Board of Management Meeting on September 26, 2020 at Oliver Ellsworth Homestead to CTDAR State Regent Christy Anderson Hendrie by C.S.C.A.R State Registrar, Adlien Ekman and C.S.C.A.R State Historian Evie Ekman. The flags will be flown at Oliver Ellsworth Homestead in Windsor and Governor Jonathan Trumbull House in Lebanon. The flags are a symbol that remind us to fulfill our Nation’s Promise for accounting for United States personnel still held captive, missing or unaccounted for from our nation’s wars.

The flags were given as part of the C.S.C.A.R. State projects and National POW/MIA Recognition Day which was September 18. President Jimmy Carter established the day in 1979 through a proclamation. Since then every president has issued an annual proclamation recognizing the third Friday in September as National POW/MIA Recognition Day.

The Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in 1892 and is part of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. CTDAR has over 2,400 members in 40 Connecticut chapters. Any woman 18 years or older regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal, bloodline descent from a patriot is eligible for membership in the National Society. Their mission focuses on promoting historic preservation, education, and patriotism.