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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I turned on Jeopardy just in time to hear this quote..it was rather 
ironic in light of recent discussions about enlistment and patriotism.

"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 their 
country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man 
and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this 
consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the 
triumph."
~~~
Thomas Paine, 1776

I think Thomas Paine got it, and I don't even think he was a Southerner. 
   Perhaps the spirit of the Founding Fathers is felt more strongly in 
the South?

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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
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