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FHS Student Wins Daughters of Revolution ROTC Award
DAR recognizes student for loyalty, good grades.
Daughters of the American Revolution awarded a Fairfax High School student with a Bronze Award on May 12.
Angelica Betts of DAR's Providence Chapter presented the DAR ROTC Bronze Award to Cadet Naadia S. Puri at the Air Force Junior ROTC Pass-in-Review ceremony.
Puri attends ROTC at Chantilly High School.
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DAR awards ROTC medals to student cadets of outstanding ability and achievement. The schools select the award recipients, who must have shown qualities of dependability, good character, adherence to military discipline, leadership ability, and understanding of the importance of ROTC training. In addition, the recipients must have demonstrated loyalty and patriotism, must have earned a record of military achievement through their participation in the ROTC program, and must have been in the upper 25 percent of their classes in ROTC and in academic subjects.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote patriotism, preserve American history, and support better education for the nation's children. Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With more than 165,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world's largest and most active service organizations. To learn more about the work of DAR, visit www.DAR.org.
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