To: jmcenanly
29 posted on
03/13/2008 9:41:10 AM PDT by
Greg F
(Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
To: Greg F
In stories it is said that at 95 years of age she waved the Union flag out of her window despite opposition from Stonewall Jackson's troops, who were passing through Frederick in the Maryland Campaign. This event is the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem of 1864, Barbara Frietchie.
“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag,” she said.
A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,
Over the face of the leader came;
The nobler nature within him stirred
To life at that woman's deed and word;
“Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.
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