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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: JBTFD who wrote (4283)11/7/2006 5:17:06 PM
From: one_less   of 10087
 
It is from a letter of encouragement that Sarah wrote to her husband, who served under George Washington. She sent the letter after Coronel Howe had delivered a particularly devastating defeat to Washington's army... and at a time when it looked like the British were very near to prevailing over the revolutionary army.

I saw the letter on a video presentation some time back but I can't find it anywhere on line...sorry. I took the statement to be encouragement for her husband who must have been near despondency; encouragement to be strong and maintain hope even though his circumstances might have seemed beyond redemption. Washington's Army certainly did have some fortunate turns of events right on the heals of her statement, which of course made her support even more cool as the tide of the war began to turn.
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