Posted on 12/24/2008 8:50:24 AM PST by SteadyJohn
My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected, but your country is at stake
The present is emphatically the crisis which is to decide our destiny. Gen. George Washington in an appeal to his troops following the surprise attack on the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776....
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Hoo-ah Gen. Washington, and a Merry Christmas to you. We all owe you everthing.
By order of Washington, these words were read to the troops before they crossed the Delaware:
"These are the times that try men's souls. The sunshine patriot and the summer soldier may shrink from the service of his nation, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman...."
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The Declaration, the Constitution, parts of the Federalist, and America's Owner's Manual, here.
Alas, it seems we have come full circle. However, the difference being our young are the ones that are illiterate and the 'troops' are the ones that can read. Irony for a dead country.
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