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Dear Rodney:
Thank you for the wonderful post!
Nothing is more deer for me than freedom. As I was born and live in slavery
for 30 years. I risk my very life (literally) to escape from slavery. I
decided that ether I and my future children will be free or I will die. (In
my time it was fashionable for KGB to burn alive people like me. Just as
example, nothing personal. Has to flee from the home and live in the forest
for three month).
What a period of the history this great country is going through. I hope it
will pass. How can we have such a president and be happy with him? How our
military could have such commander-in-chief? I do not care if president is
a peanut farmer, actor, grocery shop owner, soldier and likes many women.
But he should treasure the principal of our constitution more then his
life, because the life without such principals is not a life at all. Did we
sell our souls for 10,000 on the Dow?
Alex.
At 02:57 PM 7/3/99 -0500, J. Rodney Grisham wrote:
>Liberty - It's worth it. This is a thought for the 4th of July for
>the American subscribers to the Omega List. For the others, please
>excuse the interruption of your normal weekend activites.
>
>I don't know who write the attachment, certainly not me. Quite a
>different story than you would find in Washington DC today and most,
>if not all, state capitals today.
>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; nine
>were 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. A few
>weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and
>Livingston suffered similar fates.
>
>Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.
>These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were
>soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they
>valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they
>pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on
>the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each
>other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
>
>They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history
>books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War.
>We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that
>time, and we fought our own government. Some of us take these
>liberties so much for granted... We shouldn't.
>
>So, take a couple of minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday
>and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price
>they paid.
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