This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----__JNP_000_3694.1491.4210 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Something to think about as we celebrate July Fourth Patsy Hamrick Weikart --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dorothy Reed <djreed526@earthlink.net> To: qmgen@juno.com Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:17:46 -0400 Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: Declaration of Independance] Message-ID: <377A7B6A.62297440@earthlink.net> Very interesting !!! Dottie ----__JNP_000_3694.1491.4210 Content-Type: message/rfc822 From: NolaEze@aol.com To: AGORDON223@aol.com, CHOSINFOX@aol.com, CTKGARDNER@aol.com, charlyc@gte.net, ProNine@aol.com, CindyEEZ@aol.com, NavoSpades@aol.com, MMeyers629@aol.com, djreed526@earthlink.net, Earlene.rogers@prodigy.net, HILBY@aol.com, Geejj@aol.com, rjshook@crosstel.net, clova@worldnet.att.net, NBurton@rvm.org, CHOSIN243@aol.com, Macnroe@earthlink.net Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:06:49 EDT Subject: Fwd: Declaration of Independance Message-ID: <2f2ff2cd.24abe0e9@aol.com> Received: from imo25.mx.aol.com (imo25.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.69]) by sparrow.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12703; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from NolaEze@aol.com by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv20.21) id sJTRa03295 (14381); Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:06:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=part1_2f2ff2cd.24abe0e9_boundary This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --part1_2f2ff2cd.24abe0e9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_2f2ff2cd.24abe0e9_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline From: Dufkev@aol.com To: CALROCK@webtv.net, dwalter@space.nrl.navy.mil, KLPartners@aol.com, Grealff15@aol.com, Bob_Kudwa@amrcorp.com, NolaEze@aol.com, DEWCLAWS@aol.com, RJerrels@aol.com, RDP22FF@aol.com, WGTHRASH@sprynet.com Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:26:08 EDT Subject: Declaration of Independance Message-ID: <2f2ff2cd.24abd760@aol.com> Return-path: Dufkev@aol.com Full-Name: Dufkev X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the > >Declaration of Independence? > > > >Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before > >they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their > >sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. > >Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the > >Revolutionary War. > > > >They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred > >honor. What kind of men were they? > > > >Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were > >farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But > >they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the > >penalty would be death if they were captured. > > > >Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships > >swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties > >to pay his debts, and died in rags. > > > >Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his > >family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his > >family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and > >poverty was his reward. > > > >Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, > >Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. > > > >At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British > >General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. > >He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was > >destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. > > > >Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his > >wife, and she died within a few months. > > > >John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 > >children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to > >waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home > >to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he > >died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered > >similar fates. > > > >Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These > >were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of > >means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. > >Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of > >this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine > >providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and > >our sacred honor." > > > >They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books > >never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't > >just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we > >fought our own government! Some of us take these liberties so much for > >granted...We shouldn't. > > > >So, take a couple of minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and > >silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they > >paid.............. > > --part1_2f2ff2cd.24abe0e9_boundary-- ----__JNP_000_3694.1491.4210--