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The surprising ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776
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| August 13, 2013
Posted on 07/06/2014 8:35:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Interesting.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I had no idea! Why did I think they were all over 45? They were young upstarts. :) Brave, young upstarts.
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:38:25 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We need more Samuel Whittemores.....
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:41:00 PM PDT
by
Bryan24
(When in doubt, move to the right..........)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
An amazing group of men & women. Giants among pygmies.
However I can guarantee that “Hamilton, Lafayette, and Burr were perhaps the Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg of the War” was not written by any right winger. Or even someone center right.
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:43:39 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
To: Bryan24
There won’t be Samuel Whittemores until we need Samuel Whittmores. That’s how this works.
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:46:13 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: Tupelo
Agreed, unless he/she was trying to describe them to millennials.
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:47:05 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They were quite highly educated for such young ages.
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:50:01 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
To: Bryan24
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:50:19 PM PDT
by
Girlene
(Hey NSA!)
To: madison10
I second that pre conception!
the drawings and paintings wee see of these men portray them as being middle aged...so I Assumed....they were when their significant achievement was presented
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posted on
07/06/2014 8:55:44 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ....Barack Hussein LaRaza Obama Bites)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: call meVeronica
Bump for the kids to read
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Franklin was the oldest of the Signers, but Stephen Hopkins, aged 69, was only one year younger. About 5 other Signers were in their 60s.
Some of the Patriots listed were too young to be delegates to Congress in 1776 (the two youngest, both from South Carolina, were 26).
My grandfather's grandfather was 3 years old when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. Not only did he do nothing to aid the Revolution, he never even left Europe.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jefferson would have been too young to be President when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Wow.
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:09:05 PM PDT
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Anitius Severinus Boethius
(www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Eclipse, the sequel to Bright Horizons is out! Get it now!)
To: TigersEye
Nathaniel Green was an amazing story. A brilliantly self-educated man (as many of them were) who taught himself math, metallurgy, law, and most impressively, war.
He was only 33 years old in 1775.
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:15:32 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by it"s weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Despite what you may have heard, he didn’t write it by himself.
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:15:37 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: Bryan24
We need more Samuel Whittemores.....No, We need more James Madison's!!!!!
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:20:59 PM PDT
by
fedupjohn
(America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So what? Does that take away the point of my post? Does that change his age in any way?
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:31:38 PM PDT
by
Anitius Severinus Boethius
(www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Eclipse, the sequel to Bright Horizons is out! Get it now!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks for this post, 2nd Div. It takes some of us a while to catch on. I did not know of Whittemore. Should have, being a keen observer of US History and all. But now I’ve got him in my top 5 All-American Badasses along with the likes of Audie Murphy, Sgt York, Ernest Evans and Arthur MacArthur.
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:47:07 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Not at all. I just wanted to remind everyone that he was on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence and Congress later revised it, he is not the sole author.
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:49:49 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: Bryan24
We need more Samuel Whittemores.....Absolutely!
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posted on
07/06/2014 9:51:51 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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