Stan Hardegree -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 EH>> "These are the times that try men's souls.  The summer soldier
 EH>> and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the
 EH>> service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the
 EH>> love and thanks of man and woman."

 EH>> -- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)

 SH> I have always loved this passage, written in dedication to those new
 SH> Americans who were bearing the slings and arrows of war at Valley Forge.

It's always been one of my favorites as well.

If the Sauers, Klahns and Wilsons of that era had prevailed we'd still be
British subjects.

Ed

-- 
"These are the times that try men's souls.  The summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the
service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman."

-- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)

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