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)

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

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