- November 28, 2024
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To celebrate the National Society’s 125th anniversary and the culmination of the Celebrate America volunteer service initiative, the Daughters of the American Revolution set an official Guinness World Record title in patriotism for “most letters to military personnel collected in one month.”
Achieving this goal required the society to collect and then mail at least 10,000 letters to active-duty service members. Members of Captain James Ormond contributed by collecting 150 letters to add to the total. Many DAR members wrote personal messages, but because individuals could write only one letter each, they also enlisted help from their communities.
As dictated by Guinness' guidelines, all letters had to be handwritten, addressed to an active duty service member, placed inside a stamped, unsealed envelope and delivered in person to one of the designated stations set up at DAR Headquarters. Ormond Chapter members Beverly West and Katelyn West brought the letters to Washington, D.C., and hand-delivered them to a collection station.
The DAR had collected 100,904 letters, more than 10 times the minimum threshold needed to set the record for most letters to military personnel collected in one month. By the end of June, all the letters will be on the way to active-duty military personnel serving both at home and abroad.
Visit dar.org for more information.
