“I qualify for DAR because my great, great great...was the aid du camp for Lafayette.”
What a great lineage! You have a direct connection to history. One of the most important things General Lafayette did (and most likely your relative) was smooth over issues that arose between the French and Continental Army. It was a huge thing for us.
Sometimes I think General Lafayette is overlooked in our civic pantheon of founding heroes. My favorite Lafayette quote comes out of WWI. Upon visiting his tomb, General Pershing is reputed to have said:
“Lafayette, we are here.”
For many years it was mandatory that the males of the family, at least once, after prodigious amounts of adult beverage, go down to the statue of Layfette on horseback in the local capitol park and sit on his shoulders.
If there was facebook back then, it would have been facebook moments.