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essay, which was received with much applause. The chapter's color guard participated in two Memorial Day events, the annual parade sponsored by the city and a special event at the Beaches Memorial Garden in Jacksonville Beach honoring all military chaplains, in particular the 26 chaplains who died during the Revolutionary War. Tampa Chapter At its May meeting, the chapter heard a presentation by David Braun of the Veterans Memorial Park and Museum of Tampa. Braun told the 37 compatriots, wives and guests how the museum, a new addition to Tampa Bay history, is evolving and how its contents are being assembled for display to visitors. The museum will showcase the heroism and the service veterans from the surrounding areas displayed through their military duties. GEORGIA SOCIETY Frederica Patriots Day Celebration on St. Simons Island Unusually cold and rainy weather was not able to dampen the success of St. Simon Island's Frederica Patriots Day Celebration on April 19-21. The event, now in its ninth year, commemorates the "shot heard 'round the world" on April 19, 1775, and the American Revolution's Frederica Naval Action on April 19, 1778. Ninety people participated in the Parade of Patriots. Color guards included GASSAR and FLSSAR, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay and Brunswick High School Naval JROTC. Other participants included Golden Isles Fife & Drum Corps, BHS Navy Drill Team, and DAR and SAR members dressed as Revolutionary War figures. Local elementary school students braved the early morning showers to parade with replicas of Revolutionary War flags and wooden muskets. At the memorial ceremony in the Island Casino, middle school students amazed attendees with the recitation of the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and the singing of an inspiring patriotic medley. Forty wreaths were presented by DAR and SAR Chapters, including five for the first time, and Marshes of Glynn Chapter members in colonial dress gave life to "Four Events that Shaped Revolutionary Georgia." A musket salute and "Taps" concluded the morning's official program. SUMMER 2013 Compatriot Rev. Whit Chapman prepared for the Frederica Patriots Day celebration Colonial Worship Service on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Colonial festival exhibits were arranged throughout the casino, and SAR and DAR members answered questions about the items displayed for visitors. The Colonial Worship Service, set in the historical context of the American Revolution, was conducted at St. Ignatius Chapel of Christ Phyllis Fox Lawson, coordinator of districts for the Georgia Church Frederica Episcopal. State Society NSDAR and member of the Augustan Clayton Many worshippers dressed in Chapter NSDAR, recently received the Martha Washington Colonial attire sang hymns to Medal from the Georgia Society SAR in recognition of her the notes of the historical role as SAR liaison, coordinating SAR displays at state and clavichord. The Rev. Whit district DAR events in support of education outreach Chapman, senior pastor of fundraising for SAR. Frederica Baptist Church and a member of Marshes of Among the Sunday morning worshipGlynn Chapter, presented the sermon, ers were several people who said they much of which he selected from a serhad learned about the service in the mon delivered in Boston in 1778. newspapers. 33