One of the many ways I stay motivated is by knowing that our forefathers in the Revolution faced FAR more treachery than we could even begin to imagine in our comparatively peaceful world. Organizing protests or Grand Juries is easy by comparison.
I recently assigned my 10-year-old daughter some extra "homework", to get her to learn more about the early days of our new Republic. She researched a little-known hero -- Hannah Hunter Hendee. It's a fascinating tale!
Hannah's first hand account of that cold morning of Oct, 16, 1780, when mercenary Mohawk Indians hired by the British to destroy their Vermont town, is vividly harsh. And when the Indians kidnap her first-born 7-year-old son to whisk him to Canada to make a British soldier of him... is enough to send shivers down the spine of anyone who has children to know what Hannah must have felt...
Here's the best account I've seen of how Hannah was able to save her son (and eight other boys who shared the same fate) from certain death.
Click on the link below, and start at page 203, in the "Burning of Royalton" chapter, to get a taste of how tough our forefathers had it:
Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont
Let's count our blessings ... we can do what's required NOW to keep the freedom our forefathers earned for us with their blood.