[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I did not know about Edward Everett Hale until reading this marvelous American Minute from today by William J Federer.

These powerful quotations by Edward Everett Hale should be posted in every school house, every home, every business, every courthouse, every legislature and governing body's buildings in this country!

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

Near the end of the book, A Man Without a Country, 1863, Hale wrote:

"He could not stand it...he beckoned me down into our boat...'Youngster, let that show you what it is to be without a family, without a home, and without a country.

And if you are ever tempted...to...put a bar between you and your family, your home, and your country, pray God in his mercy to take you that instant home to his own heaven.'"

Oh my! How powerful and timely for us today are these words!!!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

What an amazing American Minute today!

Enjoy, and take to heart all that’s given here - I know I am.

Pass the word to others if you can - everyone needs to read this....

God bless all this Saturday before Resurrection Day!

[alexander_busek]

Are you perhaps referring to the story "The Man without a Country," by Edward Everett Hale?

Regards,

[Daveinyork]

I remember seeing the movie in school, back in the dark ages when patriotism was not a taboo subject in public schools.

[left that other site]

Thank you for posting these Threads.

Don’t let the “Definite Article Police” get you down!

LOL.

[call meVeronica]

bump to show the kids & awsome history ping

[xrmusn]

I always have a ‘senior moment’ when trying to remember the name of the ‘banished’. Of course when I relate this ‘story’ to most people if I call the banished ‘Hale’, they don’t know the difference (but it does matter to me) shame that this isn’t STILL required reading.

I know I could ‘look’ it up etc but.......

[Verginius Rufus]

My mother had a copy of A Man without a Country and I read it a long time ago...a very effective book.

Just before Nolan dies, someone breaks the rule and tells him what had happened in the US over the years since he was sentenced--shows him where the new states were, and tells him that Abraham Lincoln is President. Nolan wants to know if Lincoln was related to the Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln.

Hale was either a nephew or a great-nephew of Edward Everett, who gave a two-hour-long oration at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg, on the same occasion that Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.