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OPEN THREAD - JULY 3, 2009

“Suppression of information is the surest way to cause its significance to grow and persist. Clarity and openness are the best antidotes, either to dispel criticism if not merited or, if merited, to correct such errors as may be found.”
—Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein


Posted by: Sammy on 07/03/09 at 10:04 AM
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  • 1. · Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence ?

    Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

    Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

    Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

    They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

    What kind of men were they?

    Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, ninewere farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

    Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his Ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

    Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

    Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

    At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters.

    He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

    Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

    John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

    Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.

    So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots.

    It's not much to ask for the price they paid.

    Remember: freedom is never free!

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    It's unfortunate that today, many of our rights & freedoms for which so many have given the ultimate sacrifice, are under assault and that we are in danger of losing many of them...

    Comment by cheryl  on  07/03/09  at  10:24 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 2. · Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

    (sermon, October 15, 1826)

    formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

    Comment by Barbara  on  07/03/09  at  01:25 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 3. · Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska. She will step down in a couple of weeks, and has announced that she will not run for reelection. I have not found any further details.

    Comment by Lee Platt  on  07/03/09  at  04:24 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 4. · Either an affair with Mark Sanford or somebody's pregnant.

    Comment by Ken Robinson  on  07/03/09  at  05:08 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
  • 5. · What in the world is going on with all the Governor's here in this Country? Is something in the water?

    Comment by DeGiorgi  on  07/04/09  at  12:59 AM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
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