Ancestry/Genealogy

https://www.txhealthsteps.com/static/warehouse/1076-2009-Dec-2-5rauxyhn2z019k2l7075/section_1.html#:~:text=Sickle%20cell%20disease%20occurs%20in%20many%20other%20races%20and%20ethnicities,Americans%20carry%20sickle%20cell%20trait.

Regarding DAR membership, I'm eligible through my paternal grandmother. My 5th g-grandfather was a militia member from MA in the Revolution and his father was a militia officer from MA.

I was never interested in joining the DAR. The ancestral history is interesting to my family and to me, but membership is based in the actions of a select group, not on anything I achieved. I'm happy for their service in creating a nation that I was born into. But, my citizenship is shared with millions of others who are citizens by birth or by naturalization, who are not Revolutionary descendants. What I do today to preserve that nation for all of us is more important to me.

Besides, General Washington complained about militia members being less useful because they were less well trained and disciplined than regular Army members. There's also the fact that the other side of my grandmother's family descended from people who fought for the British. So there's that to think about. Can't take credit or blame for what my my ancestors did.