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I rewatched “The Patriot” last night for the first time in a long time, just because of everything happening to our country at the moment. It was amazing how the themes fit perfectly what is happening today. The only real difference was the time period.

It’s not just rhetoric, we truly are living through a pre-revolutionary period no less dire, and no less consequential for this nation, than was the lead up to 1776. As I watched the movie, what caught me off guard was how emotional it made me during scenes that in the past hadn’t been tear jerkers. Current events just made them so much more real. What got me the most was the incredible courage and determination that so many displayed in the face of such long odds. The scene in the church when so many of the men, and many of their sons as well, stood up to volunteer to fight as one that really got me. The Continental Army had just suffered several terrible defeats, and each of these men knew they were likely going off to their deaths, but they detested living under the tyrant’s boot heel more than they feared death.

We desperately need that same courage and spirit today. To resist and foil the plans of the tyrants in any way we are able, and if they eventually come for our lives, to fight.