[Night Hides Not]

Perfect!!!! That should be everyone of us - we are Braveheart, we are the modern day William Wallaces. Be thankful you were born in a time to serve your country in this fight.

As much as I revere William Wallace (I'm half-Scot), you may want to ponder history: for all the good he did, and bravery he demonstrated, his head ended up on a pike in London.

I prefer US Grant instead, who won the Civil War, and whose reputation as grown over the past few years, aided by the excellent miniseries on History Channel.

OTOH, George Washington is the gold standard when it comes to American heroes.

For our Democrat "friends", I suggest they read up on Pyrrhus, because their victory is classicly Pyrrhic. I was one of 500 Patriots at the Stop the Steal rally in Austin yesterday. The Democrats have loosed a new version of The Dogs of War, and we definitely bite!

[Sans-Culotte]

I prefer US Grant instead, who won the Civil War, and whose reputation as grown over the past few years, aided by the excellent miniseries on History Channel.

Ulysses S Grant, May 11th, 1864: “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

"A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/ PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Winning a Pyrrhic victory takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress."

[Salamander]

*However*, Wallace was drawn and quartered and his bits spread around the four corners of the country, first.

The Scots understood the ancient significance of that [intentional or not] and he became, in their minds, the equivalent of the pagan Sacred King.

If not for Wallace’s martyrdom, Robert The Bruce would not have taken up the cause.