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Do Americans owe the 25,000 soliders who died in the Revolutionary War a Thank You?
Submitted by Ralph Waldo on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 01:39
Do Americans owe the 25,000 soldiers who died in the Revolutionary War a debt of gratitude and appreciation! What about Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Washington and Paine? » |
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What's really funny -
If the dead could come back, there wouldn't be anymore wars.
Richard, you must...
Have eaten one of those "habus" from Okinowa.
I just bought plane tickets to Okinawa this fall (true)
One stop in Tokyo from Chicago, then Okinawa (OKA). I miss those cobra's.
I almost got bit by one in Nationalist China 1964, "Operation Back Pack." I was eating my "C" - Rat's right next to it and didn't know, my Captain saw it when he yelled at me for the fire I was using to cook.
They taste like chicken.
My mother-in-law in Tokunoshima, Japan was bitten twice by one, she survived, but was out of her head and they thought she wouldn't make it.
I'll be staying just a few miles from my old base, Camp Zukeran, now Foster.
Americans all need to thank themselves
for the mess we're in.
It's the apathy and ignorance of the masses that allow the slave masters to keep us all toiling for their benefit. Go ahead and ask silly questions about the revolutionary war. I think that the whole 'revolution' thing was nothing more than us trading one group of masters on one plantation for another group of masters on a different plantation.
The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson (Revolutionary War)
"Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away? ((smile))
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Please do your research
Actually, the majority of those who died in the American Revolution were prisoners of war, not soldiers. Here's a great (but very old) article by Hamilton Fish:
Martyrdom of thirteen thousand American Patriots aboard the monstrous Jersey and other British prison ships in New York Harbor
Originally appearing in "New York State - The battleground of the Revolutionary War," by Hamilton Fish. LL.D. Copyright 1976, Vantage Press
Certainly the truth can now be told without arousing animosity. The historian has a duty to narrate the facts, no matter how gruesome they may be. In this instance, it tells the story of unrivaled American heroism and also reveals the frightful horrors suffered by American prisoners in the disease-infested prison ships in New York harbor is one of the most tragic, but little-known, events in our history.
Actually, three times as many American Patriots were liquidated - 13,000 on the infamous British prison ships and in New York prisons-than the 4,300 killed in the American armed forces during the entire war. It is only right that the terrible fate of these early American Patriots and heroes, who preferred death to disloyalty, should be publicly known.
More of the article here...rarely have I seen such impassioned writing...
http://longislandgenealogy.com/prison.html
Do I owe them? Well, in my case, I think I do, but the way I intend to pay them back is through my own works in the cause of liberty.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. ("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"). Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1787.
They still died dude
whether is was in battle or a POW camp, the end result was the same!
One tiny point,,,
Look at my username. I am not a "dude." Also, many of these prisoners were not dudes either...some were women and children. Many of them were taken away just because they were rebels, and they would have been released had they only sworn an oath of allegiance to the king. I admire this kind of dedication to a cause. Perhaps many here feel we owe nothing to these patriots, but I hope seeing a story like this would inspire a few to look within themselves to see if they would stay with their principles, even in the face of imprisonment and suffering.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. ("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"). Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1787.
But doncha think
If people knew the truth, maybe we would still have slavery?
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
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But, we do have slavery......just take a look.
We are most certainly not free.
As long as no one can keep the fruits of their labor and do what they see fit to do with it. We are not free. As long as there is a money monopoly, we are not free. As long as there are no 'free' markets', we are not free.
As long as American soldiers will be recruited for invasions, rape and pillage becoming mere goons for illegall/immoral/unethical adventures that have nothing whatsoever to do with our 'defense', we are not free. As long as the Federal government gets to decide just how and what our children will be exposed to in their schools, we are not free.
As long as each American's heart is not ignited as to what Liberty means and what it takes to ensure its existence, we definitely are NOT free.
And its because each American is NOT ignited with what true Liberty is capable of, those in power make a laughing stock out of all Americans. We are nothing but a bunch of Manchurian candidates that they can poke and prod without one wimper out of most of us!
Its just damn pathetic. That is why I suggest we take Badnariks course on the Constitution!
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
"The courage of one man is a majority" - Andrew Jackson
I love it when this girl gets stirred up!
Music to my ears!
I agree...people who do not
I agree...people who do not know they are free are indeed living in slavery. What a wonderfully subversive document, the Constitution. If only people really read it and internalized what it means, and insist that our government follow its precepts, how utterly different things would be today.
But I thought Ralph Waldo wasn't asking that...
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. ("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"). Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1787.
All the Civil war did in
All the Civil war did in respect to slavery is illiminate the private ownership of slaves and restrict slavery to the State. There are some slaves that have special rights or privileges granted by the government, but very few free men truely exist. Once they understand this then change and R3volution can occur, not at a point of a gun, but by individual actions.
Our job is to teach people this fact.
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