The Richard Henry Lee Chapter of the Virginia Society Sons of the American Revolution held its first meeting of 2022 on March 8 at the Indian Creek Yacht and Country Club in Kilmarnock. Thirty-seven members and guests attended the meeting chaired by RHLC president Michael Rhodes. Charles Belfield, president of the James Monroe chapter in Westmoreland County, was the guest speaker, who assumed the role of the early life of the nation’s fifth president, James Monroe. Dressed in Revolutionary War attire, Belfield gave a first-person impression of Monroe, who was born and grew up on the Northern Neck on a farm owned by his father, near Colonial Beach. He related how Monroe dropped out of college in 1776 to join the Virginia 3rd Continental Infantry. He spoke of Monroe’s near fatal musket wound during the Battle of Trenton. “Since that event, I have carried a musket ball in my pocket and will so carry it to the day I die like the one in my shoulder to remind me of the many who risked their ...