Philip E. Brooks is an American writer, speaker, award-winning pilot, filmmaker, investigator, designer, and entrepreneur. He advocates for the return of Washington’s “Farewell Address To The People of The United States” to public view. His great grandfather Joseph Woodell was a first lieutenant in General Washington's revolutionary Continental Army in the Virginia campaigns of 1781. Brooks serves now in the Ministry of the Doers of the Word Baptist Church of Newbury, Ohio.