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 It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
- Thomas Paine

 The flag stands for all that we hold dear -- freedom, democracy, government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
- Henry Cabot Lodge

 We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson (letter to George Washington 9 September 1792)

Captain Gilbreth Falls-Absolom Hooper Chapter

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The Falls-Hooper Chapter conducts regular meetings at 10 a.m. on the 3rd Saturday of the month, from August through May, except December. Send us e-mail for further information about meetings.

Captain Gilbreth Falls was killed in the Revolutionary War at Ramsour's Mill, North Carolina; his fourteen-year-old son was riding with him at the time. When Captain Falls fell from his horse, his young son drew his father's sword and killed the man who had slain his father. That sword now hangs in the Rowan County Museum in Salisbury, North Carolina. Captain Falls, at the time of his death, was Sheriff of Rowan County.

Absolom Hooper, born 1764, Beaufort County, South Carolina, enlisted in the Revolutionary War in 1776 at age twelve years, six months and served seven years as a Private, having served at one time under General Pickens. Hooper was a prisoner in both South Carolina and Georgia. He died 9 December 1845 in Haywood County, North Carolina, and is buried in East Laport, North Carolina.