LOOK LIKE BEN<BR>As portrayed by Richard Q. Fowler

LOOK LIKE BEN
As portrayed by Richard Q. Fowler

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Revolutionary War Manuscript
A transcription of the 1859 book, "American Revolution and History."

Arlington Cemetery At Christmas

Bud Casey's Army The magnificent force of soldiers and sailors of the American Revolution created by Bud Casey of The St. Lucie River Chapter, FLSSAR

Who Was The Real Benedict Arnold?

Revolutionary War Manuscript
A transcription of the 1859 book, "Campfires of the Revolution."

Colored Patriots
of the American Revolution

"Flag of the
United States of America."

Founding Fathers

George Washington papers
Library of Congress

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Iran Attack

Lafayette: Triumph and Tragedy

NATIONAL CONGRESS, Sons of the American Revolution, PICTURES

Presidential Quotes On Liberty

Washington's Second Front

Washington's Travels in New England


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NATIONAL CONGRESS, Sons of the American Revolution, PICTURES

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May 10, 2008Click here to see:
Honor Flight WWII Veterans Returning to Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
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May 9, 2008Click here to see:
Great Western Academy Third Grade Classes
Columbus, Ohio
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May 2-3, 2008Click here to see:
Florida Society SAR BOM/Annual Meeting
Kissimee, Florida
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May 2-3, 2008Click here to see:
Florida Society SAR BOM/Annual Meeting
Kissimee, Florida
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May 2-3, 2008Click here to see:
Florida Society SAR BOM/Annual Meeting
Kissimee, Florida
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April 25-26, 2008Click here to see:
Ohio Society SAR Annual Meeting
Twinsburg, Ohio
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April 10, 2008Click here to see:
Plain City Lions Club Meeting
Plain City, Ohio
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April 10, 2008Click here to see:
Judge Henry Shaw and Dick Fowler present Flag Certificate to Jerry Palmer
Delaware, Ohio
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March 10 - 13, 2008Click here to see:
Englewood Christian Academy, Englewood, FL; Englewood Medical Center Flag Certificate; Venice/Englewood North Port Gondolier Sun newspaper old Printing Press; Sarasota Military Academy & St. Stephens School, Manatee, Florida
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler and Mary Tarpley

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March 8, 2008Click here to see:
Last Naval Battle Ceremonies, 225th Anniversary
Cape Canaveral, Florida
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Last Naval Battle Ceremonies, 225th Anniversary
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Photos courtesy Doug Bridges (Miami)

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March 8, 2008Click here to see:
Last Naval Battle Ceremonies, 225th Anniversary
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Photos courtesy Ben DuBose

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March 8, 2008Click here to see:
Last Naval Battle Ceremonies, 225th Anniversary
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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January 28, 2008Click here to see:
Senior Citizens of Reynoldsburg Meeting Pictures
Reynoldsburg, Ohio
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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Doug Bridges (Miami)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Dick Cardell (Jacksonville)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Charles Day (Withlacoochee)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy David Kelsey (Flagler)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Hal Miller (Saramana)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Charles Riegle (Saramana)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Melvin Sellers (Lakeland)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2008 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Mary Tarpley (Saramana)

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January 18, 2008Click here to see:
Benjamin Franklin Chapter Meeting January 2008 pictures, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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December 14, 2007Click here to see:
Benjamin Franklin Chapter Meeting December 2007 pictures, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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November 18, 2007Click here to see:
Rock Hollow School Historical Marker Dedication pictures, Malta, Ohio
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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November 16, 2007Click here to see:
Benjamin Franklin Chapter Meeting November 2007 pictures, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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November 9, 2007Click here to see:
Veterans Day 2007 Parade pictures, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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October 26-27
2007
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FLSSAR Fall 2007 BOM Meeting Pictures
Kissimmee, Florida

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October 5-6
2007
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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October 5-6
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Battle Days Heritage Queen
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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October 5-6
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Battle Days Living History
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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October 5-6
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Battle Days Memorial Service
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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October 5-6
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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October 5-6
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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October 5-6
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia
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July 27, 2007Click here to see:
FLSSAR Summer 2007 BOM Meeting
Kissimmee, Florida
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July 8 - 11, 2007Click here to see:
National Congress Pictures, Williamsburg, Virginia
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4th of July Parade pictures, Lancaster, Ohio
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June 28, 2007Click here to see:
Stepping Stones Learning Center pictures, Worthington, Ohio
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Alexandria Buckeyes Bus Trip To Cleveland
Lake Erie excursion
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June 16, 2007Click here to see:
George Rogers Clark Chapter
Betsy Ross Meeting
Springfield, Ohio
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June 12, 2007Click here to see:
Camp Charlotte, OHSSAR meeting
Circleville, Ohio
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June 1, 2007Click here to see:
Belle of Louisville
Ohio River Excursion
Louisville, Kentucky
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May 28, 2007Click here to see:
Blue Ash Memorial Day Parade
Blue Ash (Cincinnati), Ohio
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May 17, 2007Click here to see:
Alexandria Buckeyes meeting
Alexandria, Ohio
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May 14, 2007Click here to see:
Morgan County Historical Society meeting
McConnelsville, Ohio
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Rufus Putnam Chapter
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Zanesville, Ohio
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April 28, 2007Click here to see:
FLSSAR Color Guard at
Long Range Reconaissance Patrol Memorial Service
Kissimmee, Florida
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April 27, 2007Click here to see:
FLSSAR Spring 2007 BOM Meeting
Kissimmee, Florida
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March 9, 2007Click here to see:
Last Naval Battle Ceremonies
Cape Canaveral, Florida
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January 19 - 20, 2007Click here to see:
FLSSAR Winter 2007 BOM Meeting
Kissimmee, Florida
Photos courtesy Dick Fowler

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Some time ago a friend and I went to a local elementary school to talk to students about the American Revolution. My friend mentioned that he had a musket in his car, and the teacher said, “Why don’t you bring it in?” To my surprise, the principal gave permission, and in we went, dressed in our colonial uniforms, musket and all. The kids were very excited to see this authentic American Revolution musket replica, and they were very elated with our presentation.
For some time, whenever I wore my SAR uniform, people have likened me to Benjamin Franklin and often call me “Ben.” To capitalize on this reaction, I let my hair grow long and bought a costume such as Benjamin Franklin wore (see photo).
My objective is to go to schools as “Benjamin Franklin” and tell the kids about Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution. As with the musket, I hope to better capture their attention and help build in them a desire to learn more about the heroes of the American Revolution who gave us our freedom.


Background and experience:

U. S. Army Air Corps 1946-1949
Thirteen months Fixed Station Radio Repair School, Ft. Monmouth, NJ
Technical Aid in Electronics Upper Atmospheric Research
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico

Western Electric Co., Inc. and AT&T (Now known as Lucent Technologies)
Manufacturing Manager:
Kearny New Jersey, 1953 - 1962
Columbus, Ohio, 1962 - 1980; Salem, New Hampshire, 1980 - 1987

Federal Express Personnel
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 1987 - 1992

Webmaster, Florida Society, SAR 1999 - 2006
Currently Editor, The Florida Patriot
Newsletter of the Florida Society, Sons of The American Revolution

Personal:
Widower, Father of four, Grandfather of nine, Great-Grandfather of eight

Education:
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, School of Engineering, 1950 - 1951
New York University, 1952 - 1953
Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 1962,
Bachelor of Science in Management

Hobbies:
Computers
Photography
Gardening

The purposes and objects of this website are declared to be patriotic, historical, and educational, and shall include those intended or designed to perpetuate the memory of the men who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people.



You remember me as Benjamin Franklin, one of our founding fathers. I was not just our most famous citizen at our country's birth, I was a central part of that birth.

As a member of the Second Continental Congress, I helped draft the Declaration of Independence. As a member of the Constitutional Convention, I helped draft the Constitution. Both documents bear my signature. I also signed the Treaty of Alliance with France, bringing the colonies French aid against the British, and The Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the independence of the United States. I was the only person, in fact, to sign all of these key documents.

My role in our founding has, however, been eclipsed in modern memory by my many other accomplishments. My inventions ran the gamut from my trademark bifocals to the Franklin Stove to artificial fertilizer. I ran my own paper and published Poor Richard's Almanac. I even published the first political cartoon in the colonies. I founded the University of Pennsylvania, as well as America's first public library and public hospital. My discoveries went far beyond my famous kite experiment, and included the identification of lead poisoning and the discovery and charting of ocean currents.

Unfortunately, the result has been that attention which deserves to be paid to what I said about America and the liberty it was designed to protect has often been crowded out by that paid to my other accomplishments. Listed below are some of the things I said about Liberty: As I said before, "God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country." The summer of 1776 was a harrowing time for the British colonies in America. Open warfare with the mother country had erupted a year earlier and the future was filled with political and military uncertainties. In this tense climate, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia with the intention of voting for independence from England. In anticipation of this vote, the Congress selected a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee, composed of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman and me. We instructed Thomas Jefferson to write the declaration.


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