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The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« on: November 30, 2020, 10:58:15 AM »
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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2020, 12:22:04 PM »
That was a stirring view!

Lots of stuff in there we never learned or heard of when I was in school eons ago!!!! Sure, we heard of the crossing of the DE but that was about it!

They make it sound like much of the success was on G W's intellect but them po' patriots were the real heroes!
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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2020, 01:01:57 PM »
Quote from: Doc Nock on November 30, 2020, 12:22:04 PM
That was a stirring view!

Lots of stuff in there we never learned or heard of when I was in school eons ago!!!! Sure, we heard of the crossing of the DE but that was about it!

They make it sound like much of the success was on G W's intellect but them po' patriots were the real heroes!

The weather, sickness, battles, and lack of provisions, were brutal on the Continental troops, yet they managed to prevail under the leadership of George Washington and his officers.  :hairy  :yessir:  :*:
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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2020, 01:03:09 PM »
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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2020, 03:02:32 PM »
I'd further hazard to guess that those gents were a touch TOUGHER then we be today...lived shorter lives even when not fighting for INDEPENDENCE, which we've frittered away perhaps

Thanks for the history lesson...
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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2020, 04:04:17 PM »
Quote from: Doc Nock on November 30, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
I'd further hazard to guess that those gents were a touch TOUGHER then we be today...lived shorter lives even when not fighting for INDEPENDENCE, which we've frittered away perhaps

Thanks for the history lesson...

I would say you're right. They were a tough bunch back then... Everything they had, needed, or wanted, they had to earn on their own merit. Weren't no freebees back then... You worked hard and paid the price for not working hard. Have to admire them, they fought to keep what they earned.

We'll never see their like again I'm afraid. To many people are willing to sell themselves out for a roll of toilet paper in todays world...
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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2020, 04:24:36 PM »
Quote from: Ohio Joe on November 30, 2020, 04:04:17 PM
Quote from: Doc Nock on November 30, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
I'd further hazard to guess that those gents were a touch TOUGHER then we be today...lived shorter lives even when not fighting for INDEPENDENCE, which we've frittered away perhaps

Thanks for the history lesson...

I would say you're right. They were a tough bunch back then... Everything they had, needed, or wanted, they had to earn on their own merit. Weren't no freebees back then... You worked hard and paid the price for not working hard. Have to admire them, they fought to keep what they earned.

We'll never see their like again I'm afraid. To many people are willing to sell themselves out for a roll of toilet paper in todays world...

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Re: The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2020, 07:02:32 PM »
Sad but true...

When my Dad passed after Mom in 2012, he wanted an honor guard, which the local service organization provided and they were old chaps of WWII vintage like pop, who was 90 when he kicked...

They showed up from each branch in tailored uniforms but I was sure they'd dump the casket on the way from hearse to grave side where 2 strapping young marines folded the flag and handed it to me...

I nearly lost in right there... not because DAD was dead, but that they all made so many sacrifices and we voted in away even back in 2012 and here we are doing it again in 2020!

They say 'God Bless America' and I seriously ask "why?" When Israel and Judea wander too far, god said "fine, you're on you own and they were concured and hauled off to slavery in Babylon for 400 years...

We surely don't have the Moxie our forefathers had
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